Common beginning mistakes when learning a Programming Language

Posted: September 18th, 2003 | Author: telcor | Filed under: Uncategorized |

Hans Nowak has a great article entitled:
zephyrfalcon.org :: labs :: Python beginner’s mistakes. Although it’s mainly for Python programmers, the principles pertain to any programming language a person learns.

For example, the following:

This is a mistake that is almost unavoidable. You come from, say, Pascal, and try your hand at Python. The first code you write will probably look like Pascal with a Python syntax. You are writing Pascal code in Python.

Certainly I’ve done that in almost every language I’ve learned, with the exception of the Markup Languages of course.

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