From: Ellen K. 

I think it's possible to have different points of view on this.  Granted
that if you don't learn pointers, you can possibly write usable code
sooner, but OTOH learning pointers really helps you understand what the
computer is doing under the hood when you then do it the easier way. I've
never used C or C++ in a production environment, but I am really glad I
took those classes and that we learned to do stuff the hard way because I
think it made me a better programmer.

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:15:33 +0100, "Paul Ranson"
 wrote in message :

>Point out to her that there's no point in learning obsolete C++ when the
>standard equivalent is available.
>
>And if you start using strings immediately you can avoid having to consider
>pointers for a while. And that's a very good thing for most beginners.
>
>Paul
>
>"Geo"  wrote in message
news:41763bf2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
>> news:4174f5d8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>> BTW your instructor is way out of date. This is worrying. Nobody should
>>> be
>>> going anywhere near 'iostream.h' unless they have a really good reason,
>> and
>>> you don't.
>>
>> Actually I like that about her, she's not limited to the PC world, in fact
>> she works in one of the local supercomputer centers so she's very cross
>> platform. She also teaches a bunch of .NET classes but I opted not to go
>> that route.
>>
>>> buffer or container.
>>
>> I'm only going to the 6th class this evening so we haven't gotten to that
>> point yet, I'm just working with what we've learned so far.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>>
>

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