Re: [Leaf-devel] Languages

2001-04-07 Thread Jack Coates
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: > Jack -- You might look for better instructors (or better self-paced te

Re: [Leaf-devel] Languages

2001-04-07 Thread jdnewmil
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Jack Coates wrote: > Every time I've tried to learn C or C++ the instructor or author lays > out all the basics of the language and I do fine. We do a few example > programs like helloworld.c and add/subtract calculators, and I do fine. > Then the excersises jump into geometry

Re: [Leaf-devel] Languages

2001-04-07 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 12:14 PM 4/7/01 -0700, Jack Coates wrote: >Every time I've tried to learn C or C++ the instructor or author lays >out all the basics of the language and I do fine. We do a few example >programs like helloworld.c and add/subtract calculators, and I do fine. >Then the excersises jump into geometr

Re: [Leaf-devel] Languages

2001-04-07 Thread Jack Coates
Every time I've tried to learn C or C++ the instructor or author lays out all the basics of the language and I do fine. We do a few example programs like helloworld.c and add/subtract calculators, and I do fine. Then the excersises jump into geometry or calculus problems, because of course anyone

Re: [Leaf-devel] Languages

2001-04-05 Thread thc
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:58:05PM -0500, David Douthitt scribbled: > The thing I always find fascinating is the textbooks show you how to > add 5 and 6, but not how to scan a configuration file; or they show > you how to do a bubble sort, but not how to react to user input. It > seems as if gene

[Leaf-devel] Languages

2001-04-05 Thread David Douthitt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > People who are good at C say that C is easy. Every time I attempt > to learn C, I fail miserably... Sounds like what happens to me every time I try to learn LISP or Smalltalk. The thing I always find fascinating is the textbooks show you how to add 5 and 6, but no