thanks for the tip! I'll be looking into some more training/cert stuff
in the next month, so hopefully this will fold in well.
--
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Ray Olszewski wrote:
<snip>
> Jack -- You might look for better instructors (or better self-paced teaching
> books). Although I rather enjoy advanced math myself, I don't think it the
> obvious place to go soon after "Hello World", and not all courses follow
> that route. Certainly not community college courses around here (Palo Alto,
> CA), where many of the students take the intro sequence (now taught in C++)
> before they take calculus (if they ever do).
>
> Although I've programmed in C for ages, I only learned C++ a couple of years
> ago. I did it by signing up for a community-college course in Data
> Structures and Algorithms that was taught in C++. I knew much (though not
> all) of the DS&A stuff already, and I figured (correctly) that doing
> exercises the involved implementing linked-lists, associative arrays, custom
> String classes, and the other usual suspects in the DS&A world would hold my
> interest while I picked up the language peculiarities.
>
> It worked for me. Something similar, perhaps with different content, would
> work for you. The ORA book "Practial C++ Programming" (Steve Oualline) isn't
> a bad place from which to pick up the language in a non-GUI setting.
>
>
> --
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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