[haiku] Re: Tired of waiting
- From: Jon Yoder <darkwyrm@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:03:29 -0500
On 02/10/2011 05:48 PM, Ari Haviv wrote:
> No, it's not what you think. :)
> I'm tired of waiting and not doing anything about Haiku (or BeOS for
> that matter because I waited hoping for Be inc to pull it off in those
> days). That I'd just 'do my part' after Haiku is 99% polished and
> perfect and only then would I help by testing out almost completed
> software or promoting the Haiku idea to the masses. I decided I'm
> actually going to 'do' this programming thing and learn how to create
> something. So I picked up the Gaddis C++ book that was untouched (it
> was for a college course years ago and I just wasn't into it at the
> time) and worked on the exercises.
> If you are just starting out and just read a book that's full of
> #<>{};, your mind just turns blank. But I forced myself to do all the
> checkpoints, review questions and all the programming challenges for
> each chapter and then I realized that this stuff wasn't so bad after
> all. I also came up with my own commenting system so that I could keep
> track of all those braces. For example, if the beginning of the loop
> is: if (x >2) then after the closing brace I write // if if (x > 2)
> Once I finish this book, the next step will be to get C++ Primer and
> other books to really know C++.
If you want to get into C++, you may want to look at the "Learning to
Program with Haiku" series of lessons in PDF or dead-tree format. Not
only can you get the hang of hacking C++, but you can also do it while
learning to write code specifically for Haiku.
--Jon
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