[Gllug] c++ newbie complier probs

[Sean Burlington]

Nix wrote:

thanks for lots of tips

> >I have to say I was expecting an MSc to be more advanced than this -
> >
> >even though it is a conversion sourse ..
> >we have mostly been covering basic stuff like loops and conditionals
> >so the C++ specific stuff is kind of glossed over (and at the
>
>
> *sob*
>
> You shouldn't have to teach anyone on a master's course what a loop is,
> surely?


in painful detail - specifying that you don't need a semicolon after the 
while(foo)

to make it more annoying - you had to do a programming test in the 
interview to get on the course - then we were required to cover the 
first 6 chapters of the text book before the start of the course - great 
warnings were given to non-programmers and even to those of us just 
unfamiliar wth the idiosyncracies of c++

then the course starts and I feel like I am back in primary school

I had seen the notes online so should have been forewarned - I just 
couldn't believe it - and various friends and advisors reassured me that 
  the course was worth doing - I am hoping it gets better (or that just 
having the qualification is worthwhile)

>
>
> >same time we are studying the IEEE standard for storing floating point
> >numbers in registers - which seems to me a massive mismatch in detail
> >level)
>
>
> Um. You're studying the details of IEEE754 and *loops* at the same time?!
>
> Bloody 'ell.


wel we did that last week - this week we dod commutivity and 
associativity (3 times!) - some very basic set theory and some modulo 
arithmetic (the point of which is lost on me at the moment)

-- 

Sean


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