From: "Paul Ranson" 

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
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> "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
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>
>> BTW your instructor is way out of date.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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