Am 17.03.2012 21:20, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
"Entity325"<lonewolf...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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That is to say, nobody understands how Templates work is because, as was
the case for me, the sum total of explanation we are given on them in
programming class is "These are Templates. They exist. They look
something like this."
I've spent a total of about 6 years in college, always got A's and B's in
the CS classes, and yet I'm convinced that programming classes are
completely and utterly useless. Most of the instructors themselves barely
even know how to code (among many, many other problems). So if you're
learning programming at college, then I'm not surprised you've gotten the
impression that nobody understands templates: Around universities, they
probably don't. (Also, it doesn't help that C++'s templates could be a lot
better.)
I even had one CS prof, he said that the only language he knew was C. And
yet, after seeing his feedback on my code, it became abundantly clear to me
that he didn't even understand how strings worked (ie: C's famous
null-terminated strings) *in the ONE language he knew*.
I would say that most European universities seem to provide a completely
different experience, at least speaking from my experience in
Portuguese/Swiss/German ones.
