I think a core book should be Jamsa's C/C++ Programmer's Bible By Kris Jamsa and Lars Klander.
I absolutely agree, that book got me into C/C++ programming from no knowledge at all. I still refer to it when coding in visual C++, as it's an incredibly rich source for good, simple examples of almost everything you could want to do in C.
So free competition is OK for companies but not for the work force?
If someone is ready to work for 50% of the nation wide median salary it's his goddamn right to use that to make himself attractive to the potential employer.
I hope you can maintain that attitude when you're made redundant by someone who'll work for 25% of the national median salary...
The government should protect the people, not make it cheap and easy to disenfranchise them.
Disclaimer - I live and work in the UK, and am watching my colleagues lose their jobs, as our skilled technical work is "outsourced" to India. Our work is going to people paid half our salary, and with less employee rights.
So many times on this board I've seen people's arrogance in this form, people who really don't belive anything bad will happen to them, just as long as they're good, competitive workers.
Well too bad - I assure you, how ever useful and indispensable you think you are, you will be laid off when the bean-counters figure a way to fill your seat for less.
Not posting this anonymously, because even though it's an unpopular viewpoint - I had to get it off my chest
Well, yes....Not being serious really, that was just a weak attempt at humour. It's early here (9:30 GMT when I posted, you must be US eastern seaboard)
It's just that I laugh whenever I think of the encyclopedia, because a couple of my friends bought an old set (Circa 1970 - They're students & couldn't afford a new set), and to read it is fantastic - Computers referred to as "Automatic electronic calculators that may one day revolutionize the world" and so on.
Now I just got trollslapped so hard my nose bled...
How can these people justify charging for this stuff, they just went out and wrote down whatever they saw, and poached bits & bobs from other sources. Nothing in those 'cyclopedias is at all original , so I really don't believe they've got a leg to stand on...
Charging people to see what other people (Not the authors, remember) have actually discovered, smacks of lunacy to me.
I think I'll start charging people for reading their newspapers, seeing as how I'm broke this week:-]
Well, M$'s own comparisons between C++ and C# can be found here . From what they say, it seems like they are adding many things straight into the language, that a coder would usually create for themselves.
They talk about how easy to use arrays are in C#, compared to C++, but anyone writing in C++ would have no trouble in creating their own array class templates, and would have the option of how each class function behaved at their disposal.
This seems like a bloated Visual Basic way of doing things, but on the other hand people may find it faster to create software with.
The issue of COM hopefully won't be a problem. C# claims it will make COM programming easier, but it's not the only way; Machine code doesn't remember which language it used to be.
Yeah, I agree, the FMV scenes in FF7 & FF8 were great. Sephiroth's evil in FF7 where he tears the statue of jenova in half in the nibelheim reactor, then turns to cloud was chilling. These were FMV scenes I wanted to see more than once, but once was all it was.
The only times I ever even approached boredom was getting lost in mazes, and being jumped by the same bunch of monsters for the twelfth time on the trot. I'm looking forward to playing FF9 (Haven't had the time lately), and I'm sure FF10 will be up to scratch.
I believe Square's games are getting better, not worse. Maybe they aren't original, and they follow a similar path each time, but a truly great story deserves to be told more than once.
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I absolutely agree, that book got me into C/C++ programming from no knowledge at all. I still refer to it when coding in visual C++, as it's an incredibly rich source for good, simple examples of almost everything you could want to do in C.
Kudos to Jamsa, Klander & the dalmation...
If someone is ready to work for 50% of the nation wide median salary it's his goddamn right to use that to make himself attractive to the potential employer.
I hope you can maintain that attitude when you're made redundant by someone who'll work for 25% of the national median salary...
The government should protect the people, not make it cheap and easy to disenfranchise them.
Disclaimer - I live and work in the UK, and am watching my colleagues lose their jobs, as our skilled technical work is "outsourced" to India. Our work is going to people paid half our salary, and with less employee rights.
So many times on this board I've seen people's arrogance in this form, people who really don't belive anything bad will happen to them, just as long as they're good, competitive workers.
Well too bad - I assure you, how ever useful and indispensable you think you are, you will be laid off when the bean-counters figure a way to fill your seat for less.
Not posting this anonymously, because even though it's an unpopular viewpoint - I had to get it off my chest
What the hell, it's only karma.....
It's just that I laugh whenever I think of the encyclopedia, because a couple of my friends bought an old set (Circa 1970 - They're students & couldn't afford a new set), and to read it is fantastic - Computers referred to as "Automatic electronic calculators that may one day revolutionize the world" and so on.
Now I just got trollslapped so hard my nose bled...
Charging people to see what other people (Not the authors, remember) have actually discovered, smacks of lunacy to me.
I think I'll start charging people for reading their newspapers, seeing as how I'm broke this week :-]
They talk about how easy to use arrays are in C#, compared to C++, but anyone writing in C++ would have no trouble in creating their own array class templates, and would have the option of how each class function behaved at their disposal.
This seems like a bloated Visual Basic way of doing things, but on the other hand people may find it faster to create software with.
The issue of COM hopefully won't be a problem. C# claims it will make COM programming easier, but it's not the only way; Machine code doesn't remember which language it used to be.
One link between the FF stories is Cid, there's always a Cid in there somewhere. I've seen Cids in FF7, 8 & 9. I'm sure I remember a Cid from FF3/6.
There's even a Cid in the movie.
Does anyone remember if the earlier FFs had a Cid in? Guess it's back to ZSnes for me to go find out , or maybe Nesticle (Depending on how old FF2 is)
The only times I ever even approached boredom was getting lost in mazes, and being jumped by the same bunch of monsters for the twelfth time on the trot. I'm looking forward to playing FF9 (Haven't had the time lately), and I'm sure FF10 will be up to scratch.
I believe Square's games are getting better, not worse. Maybe they aren't original, and they follow a similar path each time, but a truly great story deserves to be told more than once.