Beginning C++ programmers

[fowle040]

Hi,
how was your first experience in C++?
what was your first project, if you remember?
what made you interested in C++?
what do you like most about C++?
do you have a job using C++?

[MMcCarthy]

Hi,
how was your first experience in C++?
what was your first project, if you remember?
what made you interested in C++?
what do you like most about C++?
do you have a job using C++?

Hi,

I understand you are only asking for an opinion on a language but we keep all questions relating to technical issues out of the cafe. I'm moving this post to the Techie Talk forum.

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[Motoma]

Hi,
how was your first experience in C++?
what was your first project, if you remember?
what made you interested in C++?
what do you like most about C++?
do you have a job using C++?

Quick.
Dining philosophers (yeah, I know).
My major.
Abstract Classes and Pure Virtual Functions.
I wish!

[Ganon11]

how was your first experience in C++?
what was your first project, if you remember?
what made you interested in C++?
what do you like most about C++?
do you have a job using C++?

1) It hurt my brain.
2) Hello World.
3) Computer Science major, had already learned Java.
4) fstreams. I had never read/written from a file before - didn't learn that in Java.
5) Still too young.

[r035198x]

how was your first experience in C++?
It got me thinking.


what was your first project, if you remember?
Adding two numbers.


what made you interested in C++?
Getting another distinction on my degree transcript.


what do you like most about C++?
Getting to do everything myself.


do you have a job using C++?
No one can get a decent job with that language.

[Frinavale]

Quick.
Dining philosophers (yeah, I know).
My major.
Abstract Classes and Pure Virtual Functions.
I wish!

Dining Philosophers?!

[Frinavale]

Hi,
how was your first experience in C++?
what was your first project, if you remember?
what made you interested in C++?
what do you like most about C++?
do you have a job using C++?

how was your first experience in C++?
-> confusing...com ing from a Java background to C++ I couldn't get around the idea of using "ClassName::Fun ctionName()" ...why do we need the "::"'s anyways??

what was your first project, if you remember?
-> a binary calculator

what made you interested in C++?
-> it eventually became the language used in all of my courses at school

what do you like most about C++?
-> hmmm...not sure...maybe its ability to work on multiple platforms.

do you have a job using C++?
-> No but I'd love to.

[Motoma]

Dining Philosophers?!

Yes, Dining Philosophers.

Because the only thing Philosophers are good at, is talking and eating.

[Ganon11]

Yes, Dining Philosophers.

Because the only thing Philosophers are good at, is talking and eating.

Ahh...but are they actually eating?

[Motoma]

Ahh...but are they actually eating?

Well if they aren't using both of those damn forks they better decrement their semaphores!

[iWillLiveforever]

how was your first experience in C++?
-painful.

what was your first project, if you remember?
-converting numbers to binary, hexadecimal, and an attempt at base 64, because I was feeling ambitious.

what made you interested in C++?
-It was what was taught at school.

what do you like most about C++?
-less confusing than Java.

do you have a job using C++?
-Not even out of high school.

[Banfa]

how was your first experience in C++?
boring (it was a sales conference)

what was your first project, if you remember?
err, straining brain... ping it just melted and leaked out of my ears

what made you interested in C++?
nothing really it's just what came after C

what do you like most about C++?
classes are great for encapsulating data with functionality (which if you came from before the C++ period you would know lack of this encapsulation and lack of discipline caused some horrendous code leading to some really hard to find bugs)
templates are supremely powerful if used correctly (and supremely confusing and dangerous if not)

do you have a job using C++?
sometimes (that is sometimes I use C++ and sometimes I use C, I always have a job)

[Loismustdie129]

how was your first experience in C++?
It was complicated and it almost made me quite programming, but I went back to learning Python for a while and came back to C++ and I was fine.

what was your first project, if you remember?
It was a program to figure up Mersenne Primes.

what made you interested in C++?
It was the next step in programming (I thought at least).

what do you like most about C++?
Haven't really learned it enough.

do you have a job using C++?
I'm still a little young.