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<blockquote data-quote="pardasani" data-source="post: 2339" data-attributes="member: 96"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Okay this may sound rebellious, but in my opinion we don't really need any course in C++ ... I think that time could be better utilized learning other skills maybe some statistics, maybe some more numerical techniques, maybe some databases, maybe even a course in algorithms....</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The way I think is that we do * A LOT * of programming in other courses: pde's and numerical algebra for eg... As Joe pointed out very well if everyone does his or her own share of we would have learnt a lot of C++.... And that's the best way to learn any language: by actually implementing and practicing with it... for eg, I never understood the need for copy constructors, but I learnt it the hard way when I got serious errors in my matrix library </span><span style="font-family: 'Wingdings'"><span style="font-family: 'Wingdings'">J</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">What we can do is probably have a requirement that all incoming students be aware of the basics of oop and state that all codes (for eg the matrix library) must be implemented in an object oriented manner... I understand that not everybody comes in with a programming background but then we have the refresher courses to help out such students.... </span></span></p><p> </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pardasani, post: 2339, member: 96"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Okay this may sound rebellious, but in my opinion we don't really need any course in C++ ... I think that time could be better utilized learning other skills maybe some statistics, maybe some more numerical techniques, maybe some databases, maybe even a course in algorithms....[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]The way I think is that we do * A LOT * of programming in other courses: pde's and numerical algebra for eg... As Joe pointed out very well if everyone does his or her own share of we would have learnt a lot of C++.... And that's the best way to learn any language: by actually implementing and practicing with it... for eg, I never understood the need for copy constructors, but I learnt it the hard way when I got serious errors in my matrix library [/FONT][FONT=Wingdings][FONT=Wingdings]J[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]What we can do is probably have a requirement that all incoming students be aware of the basics of oop and state that all codes (for eg the matrix library) must be implemented in an object oriented manner... I understand that not everybody comes in with a programming background but then we have the refresher courses to help out such students.... [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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