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Old May 6th, 2002, 09:59 PM
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Post Thinking of taking up C or C++ (switching from java)
so what do you think good or bad. i heard the transition from c++ to java was rather difficult when java came out but i wouldn't know about it scince im only 13. so what do you think?
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Old May 6th, 2002, 10:28 PM
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On the contrary, I felt the transition from C++ to Java was rather simple since I didn't have to worry about memory management.

Learning more languages will never hurt you, so just do it. C/C++ aren't going away any time soon.
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I just took up C recently myself, and I find it very easy to learn. Of course, mastering it will be quite a journey, but that's true of any language.
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Learning Java with a background of c++ wasn't all that simple, I got a little frustated at times when I didn't know how much Java would "take care" of things..

Just a tip, don't take on too many languages at once.. and "ease yourself into the language" as Stroustrup would've said
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thank you guys for the support. I beleive i will try it out. i cant wait to be able to use the pointer methods ive heard so much about from my books.
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Pointers and dynamic memory management is the most difficult things in C. Once you master these, you have done the hardest part of C.
The hardest part of C++ is MFC.
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An important thing to remember, though, is that MFC is not part of the C++ language. It is just another library that one may or may not need to learn.
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Yes, sorry I might not have made that too clear.
MFC ... Microsoft's F___ING Crap

But, then again I am not a fan of windows for the most part. They can come in handy if you plan on doing MS GUI programming, but I don't go that route if I don't have to.
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hey thanks guys.
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