On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:51:37PM -0600, Von Fugal wrote: > As for 312, I absolutely abhor that they're mandating Visual Studio and > C#. Not that I don't think they shouldn't require any programming in > Windows. It would be negligent to not have at least one class do so. My > beef is that they chose algorithm analysis of all things for it. C# is > such a obscene beast. I feel like it really really gets in my way too > much, and with the objective of experiencing, analyzing and comparing > difficult algorithms... it would really be best to just use a language > that gets out of your way and lets you do just that, focus on the > algorithms. > </rant> >
I took 312 with C# and VS. I actually didn't mind doing things in C#, as I like the language and had already learned it. VS bugged me to no end though, I kept hitting ESC all the time. If you run it on your own machine there are VI keys plugins out there, making life a bit better. -- Scott Paul Robertson http://scottr.org /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
