Re: couple of general questions

From: Francis Glassborow (francis_at_robinton.demon.co.uk)
Date: 04/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:48:05 +0100

In message <Jfecc.14389$L_8.1387@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>,
Snake <hana1@rogers.com> writes
>Hello there,
> I just wanna say that I am not beginner in this area also my questions
>might seem kinda beginner. I studdied OO and polymorphism and all those
>things.Infact, I am even a Teaching Assistant for advanced C++ course.

Well teaching is an excellent way to learn about ones deficiencies:-)
And I am glad to see that you recognise the need to learn more for the
benefit of your students, however I very much doubt that the course is
actually about advanced C++ even if that is its title.

>butI
>am asking about things I never thought of (since they are very basic and I
>know them by practice not by theory) .For example, I have been programming
>for two years and as I know,I only put a setructor when creating a pointers
>(dynamecally allocated )

While having dynamically allocated resources handled by a raw pointer is
certainly a reason for having a non-trivial destructor it is far from
being the only reason.

> in the class.But I actually never thought about the
>cases of simple classes where we dont use pointers neither destructor
>whether destructor is automatically called nothing like this exists!!Now do
>you undersant my point of confusion.The questions that I asked I already
>have a general idea especially in experimental way but when it comes to
>theory, this is where my confusion comes.I think I should've clarified what
>I know and ask about something more specific as GARY said (I believe) .

While not questioning your practical experience and expertise I think
you need to do some pretty heavy reading if you are to fill the role of
TA for any sort of C++ course, teaching requires the ability to make
things explicit even when implicit understanding is enough for personal
performance. 

-- 
Francis Glassborow      ACCU
Author of 'You Can Do It!' see http://www.spellen.org/youcandoit
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