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- From: huang@mnsinc.com (Szu-Wen Huang)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Are you really my colleagues?!?
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 22:56:16 GMT
- Organization: Monumental Network Systems
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- delta4@frontiernet.net wrote:
-
- : I was about to say the same thing but held back as I didn't want to
- : start a flame war. And I checked out the newsgroups that were
- : suggested to the posters and they don't cover stuff for C or any
- : programmers. So where would someone get information, snippets and code
- : from? I felt really put out that nobody would discuss graphics or
- : music applications as its "not a part of C". I am now afraid to ask
- : for advice on demo programming here lest I be pushed off into the
- : comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos newsgroup where they don't even discuss source
- : code or the actual programming of any kind. comp.sys.ibm.pc.music
- : don't discuss programming either. There is no comp.sys.ibm.pc.* for
- : graphics programming. Further, in the comp.programming groups one
- : would get flamed for asking about programming graphics in DOS or C as
- : its not to be "about a specific language". The other newsgroups people
- : get referred to are of even less help.
-
- I think I can speak for just about everyone if we say we don't do
- homeworks. We do help with specific portions of schoolwork, but
-
- "Will pay for linked-list inverting C code"
-
- probably won't do. Similarly,
-
- "Can somebody teach me how to do 3-D graphics in C?"
-
- probably won't do either, because the predominant knowledge there
- has nothing to do with C (it can trivially be implemented in just
- about any imperative language). As for your predicament, I think
- you can easily divide your questions. If it has to do with algo-
- rithms, such as:
-
- "How do I invert a matrix?"
-
- perhaps it belongs elsewhere. However,
-
- "What is the best way to represent a matrix in C?"
-
- will probably get answers here. However, things like:
-
- "How do I read the keyboard in C?"
-
- is frowned upon firstly because there is no portable solution,
- secondly because it's too frequently asked, but most ultimately
- because it's in a book. I think the difference is between "cannot
- understand book" and "too lazy to read a book".
-
- Happy posting ;).
-