Hi, Could you please tell me what "Leo" & "Leo2" are?
Thanks, David Charles On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Randy Kramer wrote: > An interim update and clarification: > > Clarification: > > I meant to say (in the original post) that I was looking for an > explanation of a "reference" in C++, and both the "Learn C++ in 21 Days" > and the "C++ Annotations" link gave me good explanations. > > I think a key for my learning at this point is to stop trying to read > 1200 page books from front to back and start using electronic books > (books on line or on a disk) and their indexes to search for specific > things I need to deal with. (O'Reilly's Perl Bookshelf CD worked well > in this regard a few weeks ago when I was trying to understand the TWiki > program (in Perl). Unfortunately O'Reilly does not have (AFAICT) a C++ > Bookshelf CD.) > > My goal (for C++) is to contribute to the AbiWord project. For TWiki I > imported the entire program into Leo2 and then started annotating the > code with my "newbie" level of comments. (See > http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiInLeo and maybe skim through > http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/LiterateDevelopment. I have made a > reasonable amount of progress in understanding TWiki and Perl, and could > post a more up-to-date (but not final) .leo file -- I've temporarily put > that effort on hold while I try to get to a similar level of > understanding in C++ / AbiWord.) > > For AbiWord, I imported some of the code into Leo2, but am not sure I > want to try to import all of it. I've made sort of a personal > breakthrough in my understanding of C++, and think that now I can learn > a lot by using the Doxygen (and maybe the LXR) tool(s) on the > www.abisource.com site to learn much more, but I still want to document > my learning in Leo (or someplace). What I may try to do is incorporate > all the C++ headers into Leo and provide enough additional annotation so > that I understand the function of each non-private member of each class. > > Sorry, went on further than I intended. > > See below for the update. > > Randy Kramer wrote: > > Not all the content is part of the Free Ed site. For instance, the Sams > > Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, Second Edition, leads you to www.dice.com > > (in error) or to some other site with the actual content of the book (I > > guess I didn't bookmark that site, and I can't remember the name). I > > have trouble getting there, so I'm filing a bug report with > > www.dice.com. > > > > I should have mentioned in the previous paragraph that using the book > > requires that you register at that site (free) (the site which I can't > > remember) and login. > > > > Once I learn the name of that site and how to get there consistently > > I'll repost. If you manage to get there consistently, let me know. > > (I'm using IE5 on Win95 -- sorry, it's a lot faster and more consistent > > than konqueror (which is my preferred browser on Linux).) > > The name of the site is www.informit.com. This link works for me: > > >http://www.informit.com/content/index.asp?product_id={83B8BE68-A805-4140-9F48-F2540866AC50}&element_id={CB4084E4-F9E6-45AA-BEBE-0B39F802B20D} > > (Short enough to memorize, huh? ;-) > > www.dice.com wrote back to me and said they no longer own the > ITKnowledge site (is that the www.informit.com site?), so they could not > help me. > > Right now I seem to be able to get into the informit site consistently > by following links directly to their site. Maybe that is the trick, > rather than trying to follow links from www.free-ed.com. > > If I learn more, I'll post again. > > Hope this helps, > Randy Kramer > >
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