Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:02:53 -0500 From: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> To: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue Message-ID: <B55865F2-14BC-11D8-913B-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> In-Reply-To: <002901c3a8c4$5f5e7c70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <002c01c3a8c1$a4651bb0$6400a8c0@desktop> <002901c3a8c4$5f5e7c70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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> > You can't learn C++ without learning C first. So I'd suggest you > become > intimiately familiar with C, and then move on to the advanced concepts > and > features that C++ provides once you want/need to use them. > > -- > Matt Emmerton > Thats not entirely accurate. Western Michigan University only teaches C++, and i can tell you that most C topics like pointers and printf have never come up in class. C style strings are it, and they didn't even explain those. This is a common misconception. you can go your whole life without printf only using cout << "hello world" << endl; Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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