Good news, kinda

[johnpalmer]

So... I've been studying programming, and trying to learn that Big Breakthrough that will make me stop thinking programming is so impossibly hard and complicated.

I still haven't hit it. I was hoping that my studies of Visual C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Classes would contain it, but they haven't

But I'm learning.

I was studying VB .net, and thinking to myself "Geez, this Common Language Runtime sounds just like the Java Virtual Machine."

Next day, I find out that only C++ .net allows you to make "real windows programs" (i.e., programs that run without the CLR).

Next day (today) I find out that the CLR *IS* just like the Java Virtual Machine.

I'm learning. Not as fast as I'd like to be, but I'm learning. And, just like the usual way I learn, I'm seeing the grand, sweeping patterns, and having troubles with the details. That's a good thing, I think.

Comments

Re: Um.

[eleccham.livejournal.com]

I asked around at work, and people generally agreed that the two best books for such are
one by Ivar Jacobsen for a general OO design overview, and
one by Bjorne Strousup for a C++-centric one.

Hope that this helps...