Re: Programming question-Please help

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000

>>I need to ask your advice, This thread does not really belong here but
then I have always come to you lot first for help.
I want to learn programming, My local college provides a course the
description states.
Programming in C++C&G 7261 - Beginners
Learn how to programme in a language which has commercial uses. You
should be confidnet in using computers although previous knowledge of
programming is not essential.
10wks for �87<<

Okay.

>>What I need to know is...Is there a tutoring web-site which would help
me to learn programming just like a HTML web-site helped me learn web-
construction? This would save me 87 pound. <<

Go buy a ''teach yourself C++ in 30 days'' book and learn from that.  It'll
cost you about Thirty Pounds (UK Stirling), maybe 35.  If you are
computer-minded (you must be if you learnt HTML) you'll get more out of it,
learn far more and save money.  'Beginners' college courses are (in my
experience) a waste of time and money.  You'll spend more time waiting for the
slowest member of the class, learn things that are so obvious it scares you and
probably know more than the instructor by the end of the course.  Advanced
college courses are better, so get yourself a grounding in the language and
then think about learning.  Unless you are very very nervous of learning
programming, in which case a course might be helpful.

Back when I first learnt Visual Basic I was in the same boat as you.  I did the
course and was still being shown things in the last lesson that I'd picked up
in a couple of hours of playing about at home.  And Im not particularly good.
Any confident computer user who is used to tinkering with programs would
probably have found the same.

>>When it says language with commercial uses, what does that mean?
Is there a newsgroup to do with programming?<<

It means a language which is used in the commercial market.. so you can get a
job doing it.  But you need to be a lot better than a 'beginners' course is
going to make you to compete for a programming job.

Steve T

References

Programming question-Please help
Sam Palmer <Sam@Bitton.homeway.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000