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- From: russells@netcom.com (Russell Salsbury)
- Subject: Re: Need Professional advice (by a beginner)
- Message-ID: <russellsDpMww1.LuM@netcom.com>
- Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
- References: <316996F3.3343@netvision.net.il>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 07:02:24 GMT
- Sender: russells@netcom13.netcom.com
-
- Bruce Klaydman <bruce@netvision.net.il> writes:
-
- >I want to be a professional programmer my question is
- >can I do it on my own (without taking any courses) ?
- >If so what books should I read, what language(s) should I study
- >(should it be C or C++, or both)?
-
- The programmers who first wrote UNIX did not take programming classes.
- The programmers at MS who wrote DOS/Win did.
- Need I say more? :)
-
- If you are an exceptional programmer you can learn programming by reading
- books and other's source. Otherwise you probably want to take some sort
- of course on the basics first. I took a course in C and a course in
- basic C++ at the local community college during the summer. I then got
- GCC and learned about makefiles, seperate source files, C++ virtual
- functions, C++ inheritance, C++ exceptions, etc. I found choosing a
- problem to solve made learning more fun than just reading the texts.
-
- Ryan russells@netcom.com
-