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My "programming in c++" Teacher....

ph33r · 2003-02-04T06:15:45

I went to my first "programmin in c++" class today and my teacher introduced himself. He did his undergrad in berkley and got his PhD at MIT in Computer Science - so I'm guessing he must know what he is talking about. But there are some things that urk me about what he said today such as -He told us he would not be teaching us <iostream> and he will be teaching us <iostream.h> because <iostream> isn't ANSI standard - they are pushing it to be ANSI standard but it isn't yet. -He also talked about scope and how in a for loop for(int i=0;i<4;i++) { cout << i; } int i = 4; He asked the class what would happen - I said it would produce an error message because your redefining i. He said that it does do that with visual c++ 6.0 but according to standard c++ that int i=0 should be a part of the for loops scope - so it's memory gets deallocated after you finish the for loop. -The last thing he told me that didn't quite settle right was about the register keyword. He explained how it works and how it gives a hint to the compiler to store the variable on the registry. He then said he puts a lot of things on the CPU such as all his for loops. He said it's habit now for him to do this for(register int i = 0; i < 10; i++) Now I think I remeber someone saying you should be carefull about what you put on the registry - I didn't think you should be so careless with that keyword. [edit: fixed <'s & gt;'s] [edited by - Magmai Kai Holmlor on January 30, 2003 11:43:41 AM]

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Started by ph33r January 29, 2003 09:41 PM

20 comments, last by ph33r 21 years, 2 months ago

entivore

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February 04, 2003 01:08 AM

Well. . . at the very least, everytime you see that he is wrong, you''ll be motivated to find out what way is right.

Tell him to download borland c++. They follow the standard afterall.

*Only in darkness can one truely shine*

Qw3r7yU10p!

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February 04, 2003 06:15 AM

in reality you have to learn the differences.

Enjoy the course. I haven''t been on a course for years and would love to have input. ask lots of questions, don''t bang heads. If you take issue with something, do a bit of research and say, ''i''ve found this information, what does it mean?''

complaining about microsoft is tiring. complaining about lecturers is tiring. instead use your time trying to learn, question, understand and explain and you''ll be a step ahead of most others.

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