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- From: gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz (Simon Hosie)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: info NEEDED ASAP....!
- Date: 16 Mar 1996 08:21:49 +1300
- Organization: Airdmhor : a couple of BBS's, a bunch of people, and a cat.
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- James Watson II:
- > I need to know what a reasonable time to learn C & C++.
-
- I was writing programs in C before I started my course; I scanned through
- Quick Help to see what they keywords and formats were and then I started
- scribbling programs on paper that I wanted to try.. I was writing screen
- hacks that worked after about an hour into the course.
-
- I knew BASIC and 6502 when I started, but I was already into the habit of
- DIMing all of my variables at the beginning of programs/functions.
-
- James:
- > I have never taken a course in either. I have seen extremely rudimentary
- > Code. I do not know PASCAL. I know COBOL, BASIC, and snips of others.
-
- It's as simple as it looks. Doing stuff with numbers is kinda' the same
- as BASIC (x = y + z) but with a semicolon at the end.
-
-
- James:
- > Don't flame me for being a COBOLer, it's rough enough. :-)
-
- Don't worry, man, I've been there, I know what you went through.. Don't
- listen to the people that haven't gone through it, man, they don't know what
- they're talking about, they just don't understand what it was like out
- there.. they haven't see it.. the DIVISIONS.. the SECTIONS.. those stupid
- f**king DOTS!!!
-
- I think I need another pill, now.. where are the purple ones..?
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