Re: Writing better programs?

From: Sam of California (samuel_at_social.rr.com_change_social_to_socal)
Date: 02/21/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:41:20 GMT

"Richard Heathfield" <dontmail@address.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
news:c08o87$1m1$1@titan.btinternet.com...
>
> The skills you learn now apply equally well to GUI programming as to
console
> programming. Just about everything you are learning is relevant. The only
> trivial exceptions are input, output, and how you write main().

I agree that it is very worthwhile to learn just the C++ standard language
and in a Windows environment programs that use just the standard are (mut
be) Windows console programs. However I would not consider the differences
in input and output to be trivial; at least not for the UI portion of input
and output.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: drawing Lines
    ... Well thanks for the reply, slight problem, it's such a long time since I did any programming I'm going to need a little more leading by the hand. ... Information is sent via radio to a console, this console can be connected to the computer via a USB cable. ... I want to know if I can draw lines in that circle at any one of the 360 degrees for a specific length. ... I hope to get date in and plot a line from the centre of the circle to the outer rim at a specific angle. ...
    (microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion)
  • Re: Windows graphics problem
    ... i have problems with an example from my textbook on windows console ... asm movb ah, 0x2 ... MSDOS console programming. ...
    (comp.lang.c)
  • Re: Console Applications
    ... application runs out of code to execute and there for terminates. ... This makes your console application pause just ... > I'm a complete newbie at programming. ... because I want to build Windows apps and not console apps right now? ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp)
  • Re: Assembly Console Programming in Windows
    ... > Assembly Console Programming in Windows... ... > console apps. ... environment, offering tons of stuff (Assembler, Source ... System, Resources Editors, specific Sources Editor, and ...
    (comp.lang.asm.x86)
  • Re: How do I format outputted text?
    ... I am just printing to the console. ... To do more with screen positioning, there is a library called ncurses that gives you complete flexibility to place anything anywhere on the screen. ... Learning to use this library might be too much to learn at once for a beginner to programming, but know that this is the most powerful tool for doing layout stuff on the console. ...
    (comp.lang.ruby)