RE: In regards to my giving up on programming?
- From: "Joseph Lee" <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:07:46 -0700
Hi,
I see your point.
A bit of history...
In the old days, people used to communicate with a computer via command line
interface, or CLI. As the name suggests, this means reading what's displayed
on screen (the text) and typing text commands for input. Later for
simplicity and for user friendliness, people switched to GUI or Graphical
User Inteface. Although it may seem easy now to write programs from user's
perspective, it became harder for programmers, especially when it comes to
controls and text formatting and other graphical stuff.
The console method is here in order to teach how a program would actually
look like, in my opinion. Then after getting used to it, you'll be ready to
move onto graphics things with basics in mind.
C++ language is not only used to write Windows programs. It is used
virtually in almost all operating systems and computer systems - from
writing tiny test programs to even writing part of a program that manages
this list. Even many operating systems (not all of them) such as part of
Windows, was written in C++.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Joseph
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Subject: In regards to my giving up on programming?
Ken wrote:
"You can get up and running much faster on a language like, python, or c
and
actually see results. Results is what matters when you start out coding"...
I couldn't agree more with that. The IDE is a lazy man's way to begin to
program. To me, any text book or college material which gives you a
prepackaged formula, claiming to teach you something isn't really doing you
any good and shouldn't even be used by the college. As an example, the book
I am using is "An Introduction to Programming with C plus plus, by Diane
Zak." Thank goodness they used programming, not coding. They only show you
the code you need to copy and paste into your IDE, which, in this case, is
Visual Studio. I like the way the book introduces new concepts of the C plus
plus language to you, but they fail to really get down into the dirt with
all of it. For example, they tell you what an algorithm is, and they tell
you the various procedures to start writing a program; 1, analyzing a
problem, 2, planning an algorithm, 3, desk-checking your algorithm, etc.
Basically, it just feels like I'm copying and pasting in a bunch of code,
into an IDE so I can pass a course. Furthermore, when we finally have no
errors in the code, the .exe opens up in a command prompt. They don't even
help us build real genuine Windows apps, it's all console applications. I've
always associated C plus plus with genuine Windows gui application
development. What's wrong with this picture?
Jes, the proud man.
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