Learning Experiences

I learned BASIC and LOGO when I was just a little kid, but I jumped away from learning any sort of programming as I grew up. I always thought that computers were programmed procedurally. When I got older and I bumped into OOP, I was confused for a very long time, but still managed to brute-force learning how it worked while I was in school. It wasn't until last year when the genius of the OOP concept actually hit me. Since then, I've fallen in love with it and I find myself enjoying programming as a hobby a lot more.

If I could somehow tell my past self about how to program more efficiently, I'd probably send a bunch of metaphors about how OOP worked to assist in having an earlier epiphany.

How did you come about learning your first object-oriented programming language?

Was learning gradual, instantaneous, or did it take a epiphany to grasp the concepts?

Would you change anything about how you went about learning?

you dont really understand OO till you learn a language like smalltalk and then you find out OO originally grew out of lisp and functional programming

read "The Little ML'er"