I would also heavily recommend a good algorithms class. Depending on where you are, Carnegie Technology Education, a subsidiary from Carnegie-Mellon, franchises CMU class material to Community Colleges (www.cte.org). Basically CMU (it's allegedly the number one CS school now) quality courses at Community College prices.
I had access to the material for the Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures class and it's pretty good. It'll take you through the all the various Standard Template Libraries for C++ (Sean, you have anything to do with that?) and the assorted sorting, searching algorithms and also others like Dijkstra's algorithm. The Data Structures piece gives a good idea of which data containers to use for different problems. This is applicable to any 3rd-level language, Java in particular. (I was going to teach the class at the local comm. College here in Pittsburgh this fall but it fell through. Unfortunately the local college kids shy away from it because of it having a tough reputation). Alternatively, MIT is posting its first set of free course material on the web at the end of month http://web.mit.edu/ocw/ . Depending on what they post, it might be a good place to go for a CS-type algorithms class. I would pick C over C++ just because you'll learn C on the way as it's a subset of C++ and pick up Object-Oriented programming as well. Although if OO was a priority I'd choose Java first as C++ can be trickier for that. Java will let you get on with programming logic and not to have to worry as much about good housekeeping. 'Course, there's nothing to stop just picking up a book and doing it that way. -----Original Message----- From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 8:59 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: learning C? (was by exmaple (was RE: http://examples.macromedia.com/coldfusion/examples/ down??) On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 03:17 , Ken Wilson wrote: > Reminds me of Grandpa talking about how us young whippersnappers would be > better off it we had to walk 10 miles through waist deep snow to get to > school like he did. :) "When I were a lad, we used to get up at 5 in t'morning, an hour before we went to bed, work 25 hours a day down t'mill *and* pay mill owner for privilege of coming to work and when we got 'ome, our dad would slice us in two wi' a bread knife and dance on our graves! Aye... you tell that to the young folk o'today and they won't believe you! " However, Matt's point is a good one. Learning how to do solve problems in C teaches you a *lot* about programming... Boy, I haven't had to deal with C for over ten years!! "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
