Learning OOP...

[Alex Martelli]

"Rod Weston" <rod_weston at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f7ce0059.0106060942.69f28e91 at posting.google.com...
> Trying to decide which language to learn first.  I have programming
> experience in PICKBASIC and now want to learn OOP.At this point, I am
> leaning toward learning Ada and then Python.  Any ideas on why I
> should or should not use these languages in this sequence?

I suggest you try Python first as it's far easier -- you can be
doing useful & interesting tasks in a very short time.  Ada later,
if you want (or alternatively any other static-compile-time
checking language -- Eiffel would do as well, for example,
and it's arguably "more OOP").  It's a bigger and more complex,
thus harder, language to learn & to master.


Alex