After finding out Microsoft had released a free book for learning C++, I took them right up on it and downloaded it as soon as I could. The book is, well… not particularly well-proofread but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and say that the print edition is better.
Regardless, something about that book [...]
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Programming project: TicTack
Posted in Programming on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Passing by value and by reference, as I understand it
Posted in Programming on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I spent a long, hard time yesterday trying to make sense of parameter passing. Oh, what a ‘joy’ it was. Just to make everyone else feel better about themselves, here’s my flawed understanding of it…at least in C++. Don’t take this to heart, because I guarantee there’re mistakes.
First, a couple definitions:
Parameter – what a function [...]
A few programming stumbling blocks
Posted in Programming on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, so I (mostly) finished going through that book I mentioned the other day. Then I remembered that I have a book better-oriented toward C++, so I started reading it yesterday. It’s How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: C++ Version. It’s also available for Java and Python, in various file formats.
I’ve read it with [...]
