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- From: tequila@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Mario Garcia)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
- Message-ID: <86113@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 01:53:12 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.163028.8829@netcom.com> <24538@alice.att.com> <4284@dozo.and.nl>
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- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- In article <4284@dozo.and.nl> jos@and.nl (Jos Horsmeier) writes:
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- >I think there's a bit more to leaning C++ than there is in learning C.
- >C++ uses quite a different paradigm: the object oriented programming
- >approach. Here at my company, they made me volunteer (with a gun pointed
- >to my head ;-) to teach the programmers team the concept of object
- >oriented design and programming. My first attempt was using your book
- >along the line of explaining inheritance, polymorphism, data encapsulation
- >etc. etc. We ended up discussing the misty details of the C++ language.
- >I completely failed here. My second attempt was, not using any programming
- >language at all, but just a clear explanation of the object oriented
- >concepts and mechanisms. When all that was clear, we switched to C++.
- >
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- I'm trying to make the switch from traditional Mac and UNIX C programming
- to C++ and Objective C. Can you recommend a good book for learning OOP
- in general ?
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