[QCLUG] Re: March Meeting

[John Bubon]

Are there still plans for a presentation on C and C++ at the march meeting?

John

Bob wrote:
> All
>
> C and C++ are now vastly distinct languages.  I've offered to give a 90 minute primer class in C++ at
> the March meeting and based on the interest in the group, I gather I should start preparing.  I'm
> not going to get into the differences between C and C++ via e-mail.  Save those kind of questions
> for the March meeting (although I'm not going to expect anyone to know C or any other programming
> language for the primer class).
>
> No, we won't get into UI programming in a primer class--nor should we.
>
> By the way KDE was written in C++ but Unix and Linux are written in C.
>
> See you all at the March Meeting--install g++ and the glibc libraries on your laptop
> and bring it if you can.  If you can't bring a flash drive and the code we "write" can be
> copied to your flash drive perhaps by someone with a laptop.  
>
> I will put work into this so please be prepared to learn.  By the way,  the hottest language for
> UI programming today is probably JAVA but it doesn't have the speed of C++.
>
> My goal is to get people to "think in C++" (meaning classes and objects) and to approach
> organizing and processing their data by having C++ as a tool in their toolbox which they
> can employ when they need to.  Remember, this is only a 90 minute primer.  Let's see how
> this goes before we think about follow-ons...
>
> Bob
>
>
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