13 years ago i took a semester..or maybe even a full year..of introduction to c++. i was so uninterested in learning it that I only went to all 3 days of the first week of classes...after that it was only when i felt guilty for NOT showing up :-/  Well, i was bored and kinda interested now, so I found out that Stanford University has their C++ class available free on iTunes University.

Here is how bad at programming I am....
first: i couldn't figure out how to start a c++ project in xcode on mac.  
second: i can't even copy/paste a sample program and have it compile and run without errors :(

GRRRRRRRRR......

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs106b/  there is the official web page of the class...

Originally i wanted to learn to program for the iphone for fun....but the iphone class from stanford said that the above class was a pre-req so I figured I would watch the 45-52 minute videos while driving and try to learn something...but FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK BALLS....its all bad memories from college with nothing working :(

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(29/06/2010 07:23 PM)SchmilK Wrote:  first: i couldn't figure out how to start a c++ project in xcode on mac.  
second: i can't even copy/paste a sample program and have it compile and run without errors :(

Same for me, at times, lol.  Setting up a dev environment isn't really programming, so yeah...  Some are just a bit confusing to get right at first.

Surprising that iPhone dev requires C++ at first, whereas Objective C's syntax is a bit different (I guess they intend to translate C++ ideas to ObjC) - in fact, ObjC looks rather odd to me.

i think the pre-req is to ensure that you have a fundemental base of programming.  I can't even hello world using the bullchocolate headers that stanford gives using cout :(  if i don't use their addition header files i can use std::cout and it works, but double you tee eff...why can't i replicate the exact same thing the damn professor is showing on screen :(