From: Ellen K. 

Oops, I mistyped.

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:09:08 -0700, Tony Williams 
wrote in message :

>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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