The ones you would think are stupid that I remember from C were calculating
pi and determining whether a given year is a leap year, each of which we
were required to do in one line of code.  From C++ the one I remember was
the set of inheritance ones of point-circle-cylinder.  However, the reason
I remember that was that the instructor left out something in the base
class and I thought we weren't allowed to change the base class so I
figured out a way to derive what I needed and felt very clever.   


> From: "Geo" 
> "John Beckett" 
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> news:4180c5ec.1992855{at}216.144.1.254...
>> Playing with VC++ GUI development would be quite interesting, but if
>> you're wanting to learn the basics, I would recommend looking at the GUI
>> later!
> That's what the teacher said, but I'm one of those who likes to get a good
> overview then I can better understand the details and how they apply.
> It just seems like a waste to me to teach the way they teach. The book we
> use sucks, the other books I've tried to learn from suck even more, so I
> decided to try taking the class where I can at least stick around after
> class and ask quesitons about things we haven't covered yet so that when I'm
> learning loops or file access I can at least use them for something fun.
> To give you an example, they wanted us to write a GUI program that was a
> fahrenheit to celcius conversion program so we could use buttons, focus,
> text boxes, etc. I thought that was boring so instead I wrote a voting
> machine with "Bush" and "Kerry" buttons and the
count for each in text boxes
> and focus changing so you could only vote for one and well you get the idea.
> It was way more fun than a stupid thermometer..
> You know, students aren't stupid, it takes 5 minutes to explain what
> features they want to teach us today and then ask for suggestions for a
> program example that would be fun to do. That's how they should teach
> programming, instead of the same stupid programs year after year.
> Geo.

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