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- From: Dan Schwartz <pathdan@earthlink.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Newbie in a hurry
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 19:04:30 -0700
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- Greetings, friends.....I'm a physician who is about to start a
- fellowship at Harvard (OK, OK, thank you) in Medical Informatics. I
- only have one year's computing experience, using Win 3.1 and Win 95 (so
- why did they accept me? good question.....) Anyway, I start 7/1/96 and
- the one thing they have asked me to do is to make a start at learning C
- and C++ programming. Understand that I have no programming background.
-
- I was accepted too late to find any open courses here in Sacramento. I
- picked up 3 books, one of which (by a father-and-son team at MIT uses C
- as a paradigm for teaching basic programming techniques....very useful.
-
- Now, the question: I have seen Borland Turbo C++, which touts itself as
- a simple (?) way to begin programming in C and then C++. The price is
- more or less reasonable. Would it be a reasonable approach to use that
- tool in conjunction with the books, or would it be a waste of time and
- money?
-
- Any other suggestions about this would also be very welcome. Thanks.
- You can either e-mail me privately, or post to this group.
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- Dan Schwartz <pathdan@earthlink.net>
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