News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. Parent comment

Re:Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by fnid on Saturday October 24, 2009 @11:11PM (#901199)
I don't think that's true. I learned how to program in high school and we had a network and it was fun to write computer programs to allow my classmates to send messages over the network to other students. This was back in the Novell messaging days. I also did a lot of graphics programming drawing neat images and a chess game.

It's no more frustrating than losing at poker or some type of competitive game or politics.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by elbenshira on Saturday October 24, 2009 @11:14PM (#901203)
Yes, it is fun. But see, if you want to dig deep, then you are eventually going to hit topics and discussions that you can't easily warp your mind around. Learning computer science is not always an easy and happy road.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by brianto2010 on Saturday October 24, 2009 @11:27PM (#901215)
In context, lionhearted doesn't want to 'dig deep'. Rather, he 'just thinks it'd be a neat thing to spend some hours in.' He doesn't have to learn hard topics if he doesn't want to. Plus, if he does, then it should/would be for his own enjoyment.
[ Parent | on HN ]