I'M TAKING C++!!!!!!!

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:38 pm

After this class i should be able to write cheap programs and good 3d max scripts...

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:31 pm

You ever taken a programming course before? C++ is hardly where I'd recommend starting out... if you get to play with Visual Studio (on your own free time of course!) check out C#. If not, look at Java. Great way to get introduced to the concepts of OOP without being bogged down by all the details that C++ imposes on you.

/CS major

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:08 pm

I've just started with an Intro to CS class myself. Imagining myself attempting to code in C is pretty hilarious. I'd also have to say that, to a lifelong Windows user, my first experience of sitting down at a Solaris workstation and compiling on a remote machine was a little bizarre.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:54 pm

Eh, you don't usually have to do it unless your machine has a bad setup (like mine, as I found out to my detriment a few days ago; how'd they make fread unpredictable?) or you just don't have the compilers.

There's also quite a lot more to programming than just learning a language.

I know quite a few people who did that and still don't get a lot of concepts...

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:37 pm

I'll second Java for starting out. It's a pretty flexible language.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:04 pm

I 3rd that. I learned C++ before I learned Java but it wasn't until I completed 2 Java certification programs that I really began to sing with C++. In C++ you can cheat and use a modular programming style. That is much harder to do in Java where you are forced to adopt a more OOP style.

BTW: C++ 16 years, Java 9 years

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:32 pm

10 years of C/C++ here. I'm a lab assistant for the intro Java kids. But let's not let this degrade into a programming penii competition.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:06 pm

Oh, lets not discuss penii length. BTW mine is 12 inches long

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:38 am

Neener neener, got no weiner, Iceman don't got no balls neither.

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:07 am

Oh i started off using pascal. I got pretty good with it and after about a month i think im doing alright, in class.

SirWinner · Post by **SirWinner** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:59 am

Happy for you on learning a Computer Language.

Just find a set of programming languages that you are comfortable using on a regular basis.

Here's an idea from a 28 year Computer Programming Veteran: Learn MULTIPLE computer languages and see how similar they are to each other.

My favorite computer language that I rarely get to use: Assembly.

Wheeeeeee!