From: Tony Williams 

Geo wrote:
> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
> news:4179953d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>I think others already mentined it, but if you want something more
>>C++ish the STL is well worth investigating.
>
>
> What is STL?

The Structured Template Library. Very handy thing to have in your mental
toolkit. Here's a pretty good tutorial:

http://www.yrl.co.uk/phil/stl/stl.htmlx

It introduces a layer of abstraction which lets you use standard algorithms
with just about any type of object - sorts, lists, hashes etc., etc. Well
worth learning  and once you get the hang of it you'll be amazed how easy
it makes things, not to mention drastically shrinking the size of program
source code.

It's an official standard and works with just about all C++ compilers.

> Currently I'm not really looking for anything, in fact I'm still pretty lost
> and just trying to wrap my head around some of the more alien concepts of
> VC++.
>
> I did get kind of a surprise the week, we had our first midterm (aren't you
> supposed to have just one midterm?) and while I thought I had done somewhat
> worse than I would have liked I ended up with the top grade in the class.
> That doesn't mean anything considering most of the kids in the class are
> beginners but there are 2 older guys in the class who I thought were really
> good with this stuff as they always know all the answers.
>
> Anyway, after the midterm I remembered why I hated school.. 

Nice going! I found that sometime in the last few years I started regarding
education/training as something to look forward to. Maybe absence makes the
heart grow fonder ...

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Tony

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