stevengreen22 Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 Does anyone in here still program with Pascal??!?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Developer Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Does anyone in here still program with Pascal??!?? Pascal is outdated. I don't think now people are using Pascal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevengreen22 Posted April 11, 2011 Author Share Posted April 11, 2011 I'm studying for a degree and part of the course is to learn Pascal - as an introduction to programming etc. We started omn it way before I started looking int o php etc and found it to be a huge help for understanding loops and so on. I've now got a fairly uber assignment that needs to be done and wanting someone to test it for errors. I've only dropped 8 or so marks out of 600 so far and want to get as close to 100% as i can. Also, it's outdated, but you can still do some pretty clever stuff with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Pascal will teach you some basic concepts and fundamentals to programming. I don't think learning any language could be detrimental, but there are other languages I certainly would rather spend my time on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevengreen22 Posted April 11, 2011 Author Share Posted April 11, 2011 I agree but... I wasn't put in the scenario where I had a choice. So...pascal it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 lol I remember learning pascal in highschool. It was the "introductory" language for computer programming at my highschool. Well, there was this "computer math" class that taught QBasic, but that didn't really count. The actual "computer programming" class started with pascal, then moved on to C and then assembly. But that was like 20 years ago...I'm kinda surprised they still start there...but on the other hand, it is kinda a watered down version of C, maybe it is still okay to start there.../shrugs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 Don't lie, you know you still use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevengreen22 Posted April 14, 2011 Author Share Posted April 14, 2011 lol, showing your age a bit there. I think the main reasoin for them teaching us pascal is they want us to learn programming basics without contradicting anythign we might learn later on. doesn;t make much sense but starting on java next year at a different uni, it's all the same course but different lecturers. anyways...it's all good, spending more time trying to get my head arouns php and html/css instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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