From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:41908b31.3287727{at}216.144.1.254...

> I guess that to be competitive, a class has to "cover" the
main concepts
> of a language. However, starting with non-C programmers and covering C++
> in 14 weeks + 2 exams, I imagine that a lot of the details will be hazy.

My whole live is hazy . Actually all I really want out of this
class is a good basic overview, I can learn the rest myself from there.

> For example, only a reasonably sophisticated programmer would appreciate
> the point that a template is evaluated at compile time. The cute thing
> about a template is that it can operate on classes that were designed
> *after* the template. That works because the compiler substitutes whatever
> class the current programmer wants, and we all hope for the best.

My head is starting to hurt .

Geo.

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