nimak247 wrote: > Christopher, Thomas, and Tyler, > > Thank you all for the long replies. Hope I didn't cause any bad blood between > you all with my post :O). > > If I may, this course is my second one. The first one was in Java, where we > learned the basics; This one is building off of that. The first lecture was > all about what is similar vs what is dissimilar. Pointers popped up pretty > much right off the bat, in chapter 2 of the book being used for the course. > > To be honest, I am fascinated with both c and c++ because of things like > pointers; That sort of stuff that you wont see in c#, java and the like. I > guess I am one of those people that just "wants to know". > I may get stuck every once in a while, but thanks to wonderful groups like > this one, I can get an answer and learn from it, keeping going till it > understand it. > > nim
Youthful programmers such as yourself definitely like to dig in and get to know how things work. That's a good thing. That is curiosity and curiosity drives innovation. As you get older, you'll likely shift more toward the "whatever gets the job done quickly and done right" attitude that I've got. I've settled on two languages: C++ and PHP. C++ for client, PHP for web (and a small mix of batch files for automating command-line tools written in... C++ of course). It keeps things simple since I don't have the time to maintain code in 15-zillion different languages. As it stands, it looks like I'm going to have to learn Android soon, which is Java-based (thankfully there is the Android NDK). Meh. No bad blood. We like to bicker about high-level stuff. You can ignore it if you want but you might learn something new. :) -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/
