Re: C++ and I are getting divorced.

  • From: Tyler Littlefield <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:11:11 -0600

javascript? Seriously? python was a good solution though, you just need to get 
used to indentation. Better to keep slogging along with cpp than to switch half 
way through, because essentially your just giving up on something.
                Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
        http://tds-solutions.net
        Twitter: sorressean

On Jul 27, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Alex Hall wrote:

> If you want to try programming, I recommend either Javascript (a web
> language, but it is forgiving and easy to understand) or Python, which
> is, in my opinion, a lot easier than cpp. I definitely do not
> recommend giving up. As Tyler said, everyone who learns to program has
> a rough time of it at first, but eventually you get better and learn
> from past mistakes, and learning one language that you find you like a
> lot will help you learn other languages in the future, since they all
> have the underlying principles of looping, conditions, functions, and
> so on, though they all implement these in different ways.
> 
> On 7/27/10, Tyler Littlefield <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I guess, there is a better analogy. Nothing comes to you easy; you need to
>> crawl before you walk, walk before you run. Look at it like playing an
>> instrument. You don't just sit down and pick up a complex song in 5 minutes.
>> Something that may help you is to go go look at code that does what you
>> want. Google for like "c++ elseif" and see what pops up.
>>              Thanks,
>> Tyler Littlefield
>>      http://tds-solutions.net
>>      Twitter: sorressean
>> 
>> On Jul 27, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> 
>>> If  you want to give up after the first few syntax errors, go for it.
>>> Otherwise, keep working, your going through what everyone who learns c++
>>> did, and you'll get it.
>>>             Thanks,
>>> Tyler Littlefield
>>>     http://tds-solutions.net
>>>     Twitter: sorressean
>>> 
>>> On Jul 27, 2010, at 7:52 AM, Jes wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Lol thought I'd put a humorous subject in there to try and lift my
>>>> spirits a little bit. I've been working on a project for five days
>>>> straight, sacrificing sleep and other stuff to get the stupid thing done,
>>>> and I've decided that while I like programming, C++ is a bit to
>>>> complicated for me at this point. I am a musician, so after I get this
>>>> beast of an assignment done, I'm divorcing C++ and moving back to music
>>>> for a bit. Audio editors and sequencers all do whatever  I tell them too,
>>>> they don't bitch at me like M S Visual Studio or GCC.
>>>> As the average pc user declares, "They, just, work. "
>>>> Grin. I won't be able to make anything more than simple programs, no
>>>> matter how much I like programming.
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