student
I am a student again. Officially. I have signed up for CIS210 Programming and Data Structures I. It is a course that is taught using C++ as the language, so that will be mostly new territory to me. I tried teaching myself C++ shortly after learning PHP and failed pretty miserably. I mean, I made some dinky little programs that printed out text to the screen but didn’t really get object orientation or namespaces or any of that. I got too caught up in the crazy syntax of C++.
I feel like I have more of a conceptual foundation to build on now that I have some decent Python/object oriented programming experience under my belt. In Python, I was able to learn concepts that apply broadly to programming in general. I think I am finally ready to get my brain wrapped around C++ concepts like pointers, passing by reference, passing by value, etc.
Anyhow, my first class is tomorrow at 2:30. Wish me luck!
cw