On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 15:04:06 -0500 Miguel Roig
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Happy Y2K everyone.
>
> There is a course in C++ that I will be able to audit next semester. Is C++ a
> useful language for these purposes?
>
Miguel:
I learned to program in C after much frustration with BASIC and
FORTRAN. C is an extremely powerful and flexible language. C++
is a superset and has some additional features that are probably
not that relevant to you.
I would recommend learning the language. Also I would recommend
going to the instructor and explaining how you are going to use
the language by describing a simple experiment. Much of what I
suspect you want to do concerns time-critical input/output
operations whereas the typical programming course is heavy on
"data structure" and database manipulations. The instructor
should be able to let you know where the course is going too
lightly or too heavily over topics of interest to you.
printf("Good Luck!"\n);
Ken
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Kenneth M. Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Associate Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
