Re: Need C++ tutor for 10th grade student

["Samuel Baldwin" <user=1502@nabble.blu.org>]

 2008/2/13, Scott Ehrlich <[hidden email]>: 
> Lest we not forget, for those who are still "young", different school 
> systems have different budgets.  It is absolutely possibly that Sam's 
> school (system/district) has/had the funds to teach, or maybe he picked up 
> the language on his own. 

Nope. None of my schools have had any competent computer program. I 
just test out and move onto maths. 

My grandfather is a computer engineer (now a consultant), and taught 
me some stuff, books and the internet took it from there. So I'd say 
I'm mostly self-taught. 

> Personally, I took Fortran and COBOL in high school, didn't do so well, 
> and C was just evolving to be taught, but I was so fed up with my bad 
> experiences with the higher level languages, I said thanks, but no thanks. 
> I did get some exposure to C in college, but haven't used it since. 

Interesting. I wish they taught us useful things like that. 

It's great that the kid wants to learn, but s/he's probably better off 
financially if they save their money and buy something like Learning 
Perl (or that K&amp;R book about C I have yet to read.) 

I guess having guru's around is very important though. That's how I 
learned good practices. (You should compare some code I've written to 
my peer's, who doesn't spend time in IRC/Mailing lists.) 

Also, what's Jerry doing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in April? 
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Samuel 'Shardz' Baldwin 
Shardz's Igloo: staticfree.info/~samuel/ 
Registered GNU/Linux User #410639 

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