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Alf P. Steinbach
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 Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:38 am Post subject: [Unfinished] "counter-based loops" tutorial available |
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I have to shop Christmas gifts (and clean up...  ) before leaving
on Christmas holiday tomorrow, where I'll effectively be without a
network connection until January 6th, so I just posted what I have so
far -- which perhaps you'll find interesting!
This is the third but unfinished part of what hopefully will become a
technically _correct_ C++ newbie tutorial.
<url: http://home.no.net/dubjai/win32cpptut/w32cpptut_01_03.doc>.
Comments & criticism welcome (post here, please, don't mail).
I'll look at those comments in January -- or perhaps this evening.
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Ioannis Vranos
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:00 am Post subject: Re: [Unfinished] "counter-based loops" tutorial available |
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Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
| Quote: | I have to shop Christmas gifts (and clean up... ) before leaving
on Christmas holiday tomorrow, where I'll effectively be without a
network connection until January 6th, so I just posted what I have so
far -- which perhaps you'll find interesting!
This is the third but unfinished part of what hopefully will become a
technically _correct_ C++ newbie tutorial.
url: http://home.no.net/dubjai/win32cpptut/w32cpptut_01_03.doc>.
Comments & criticism welcome (post here, please, don't mail).
I'll look at those comments in January -- or perhaps this evening.
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That is a nice effort and my main comment is why call it win32 in the
first place.
Apart from this, I think that a tutorial aimed for complete beginners
should be as simple as possible, while I think your approach is very
complex for a beginner.
I think you should not try to explain everything for a specific feature
altogether, but introduce simple things for each feature at first, and
then at a second "pass" introduce the more advanced concepts.
In any case, making the tutorial Win32 specific means it is not ISO C++
specific.
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Sharad Kala
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:30 am Post subject: Re: [Unfinished] "counter-based loops" tutorial available |
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"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps (AT) start (DOT) no> wrote in message
| Quote: | I have to shop Christmas gifts (and clean up... ) before leaving
on Christmas holiday tomorrow, where I'll effectively be without a
network connection until January 6th, so I just posted what I have so
far -- which perhaps you'll find interesting!
This is the third but unfinished part of what hopefully will become a
technically _correct_ C++ newbie tutorial.
url: http://home.no.net/dubjai/win32cpptut/w32cpptut_01_03.doc>.
Comments & criticism welcome (post here, please, don't mail).
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I skimmed through the tutorial and overall it looks good to me.
Some points though
- You mention Ken Thompson to be creator of C. That's Dennis Ritchie
actually.
- I haven't read the first lesson of your series but have you introduced the
term UB and what it means ? Also it may be a good idea to tell as to what
causes the loop to reach UB (probably in a footnote).
- Do you intend to introduce while/do-while too ? May be just in a couple of
paragraphs.
- I wish the tutorial wasn't targeted only for a Windows user. Else you
could add a few lines for Unix users too wherever you mention Windows stuff.
Sharad
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