Programing Experience (Page 1 of 2)

I would have to agree with learning by trying.  However, I do think that some starter/primer books are helpful.  I found a good one for C++ that broke things down into plain English without being stupid about it.  While I forget most of the important details, I at least have a decent foundation now.  I recently dove head-first into a project writing a piece of software for someone in my research group.  I had a very nice program in C#, but for unknown reasons it only worked on my laptop.  So, instead I'm having to redo it in VC++ which also means learning MFC and the necessary API calls to interface with the CommPorts and such.  I've learned that I respect how much work they've put into .NET to make it friendly.

Especially with dealing with C++, I'd suggest finding a decent book that at least has a good section on pointers.  Pointers are still my biggest pain.  Although, if dealing with MFC, I'd try to stick with most of the included classes such as CString and CArray.  Helps to avoid dealing with pointers and open you up for stupid stuff like editing the pointer and not the data.

I recently saw an article that showed Java to be faster than C++ in some things.  I found it interesting, but Java still requires a VM.  I really hate how MS handled .NET.  It's not a required download and if you dont have it, you don't get a meaningful error message when starting a program.  It just says "Error 0xc00000135".  That's not horribly useful to the average person.  They look at that and say "man, this programmer really sucks, the program doesn't even start" and uninstall/delete the program.

It is for this reason that I'm thinking of trying to stay away from .NET.  Maybe .NET2.0 will be better about it.  One can only hope.  I do, however, love the way the do things in .NET/C#.  It makes so much more sense to say "Button1.enabled = true:" than "GetDlgItem(IDC_BUTTON1)->Enabled = true;"  I mean, seriously, you can't tell me that is an intuitive thing.

And we'll never stop.

Dude! We have the same hobbies!

Obviously not from Oman. OHSHITBURN!

I'm lame.

Aren't you the guy who can't even fix his own internet?

ya I am, how am I suppost to fix it when my dad won't let me run a chord to his. He said I have to use the entena.

C:program filesmsworksmswordmsword.exe
>run spellcheck
>

Because chord is a word, spell check doesen't flag the context of the word, as long as a word is spelled properly spellcheck won't do anything.

Cord as in Television cord.

Chord as in Musical Chord.

zer always pointed me to gamedev.net

that is where I picked up most of my iso programming habits.

used to be an awesome site but I have not used it in a few years.