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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Possibly slightly OT] KDE development
From:       Corey Schuhen <cschuhen () ozemail ! com ! au>
Date:       2001-06-19 11:43:21
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I only graduated from uni this year. And we did learn Assembly in a number of 
subjects, 8600 and one of the PDP processors, PDP-8 I think it was. My 
brother and girlfriend have also done assembly at their Uni.

Who said that they dont teach assembly at Uni anymore.

Corey

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:14, John Schmidt wrote:
> Richard Stevens wrote:
> > The biggest problem is though to learn and get to know the classes. KDE
> > comes with a huge and very powerful classlibrary that hides most of the
> > nasty details of you and most of the time, the biggest problem is to
> > figure out which class does the job.
>
> I know this is rather late on this thread, but I had to chuckle at "hides
> most of the nasty details" because C much less C++ hides ALL of the nasty
> details! Makes me wonder if any/most of the younger developers on this list
> ever heard of Assembler?  They don't teach it in college/university anymore
> and it's hard if not impossible to find books on it, especially IBMs
> mainframe Assembler. :(
>
> From an old dinosaur (41), definitely learn C++ first, maybe even just C. 
> I've got a book "The Joy of C" by Miller & Quilici that starts at C and
> covers the basics of C++, classes, and inheritance in the last 3 chapters. 
> It's not very good as a quick reference book because it builds functions
> and reuses them.  Depends how much $$ you have to spend on books, but you
> could always write 'em off at tax time! :)
>
> There is however a good website that charges much less for books than
> retail stores, at http://www.bookpool.com offering Stroustrups books,
> http://www.bookpool.com/.x/ztxmyjjwa6/ss/1?qs=Stroustrup&Go.x=8&Go.y=5
>
> regards,
 
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