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DCOM Productions Student Program

Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:30 pm
by Trenchant
Found this on another forum I frequent. I will be signing up as I think it would be a very good experience and a way to get into C style programming. Its a free classroom style learning enviroment that he will be running on his forums. It sounds like a new assignment or class will be posted every week. Students learn the lesson and then can post questions in the forum.

Sounds promising, here's what he posted:
For the last week or so I have been planning to start a student program where people can sign up and learn a programming language. Before I do anything I am collecting data from various locations to see how many people would be interested in a student program like this. Some of what I plan to teach depends on what language the people would like to learn, but I was also thinking about doing this one language at a time. (For example, I would teach a C# class for a month or so then switch over to C++, then on to Visual Basic, etc.) Doing multiple languages at the same time will most likely be a headache.

Some of what I plan to teach:
*The basics of the programming language
*Working with consoles
*Working with Windows Forms (GUI programming)
*Windows API's
*Interacting with Windows
*More when I can think of it...

What I plan to cover:
*C# (CSharp)
*C++ 8.0
*Visual Basic

As I said right now I am just collecting data to get some numbers of how many people may be interested in this kind of thing. If you are interested please drop by the Official DCOM Productions Forums, register and post that you are interested, ask any questions or concerns you may have, etc.

Here is the link to the main page: http://www.forums.dcmp.z27.net/
Here is the link to the student program: http://www.forums.dcmp.z27.net/viewtopic.php?p=30#30

EDIT: When you get to the main page about this student program, (second link), don't forget to take the poll question that I added so I can add that information to my database. Also, if you choose "Other" please state what other language you wish to learn in your post.

I will probably even have a poll so I can see which languages will be most likely prefered in this student program. I plan to set aside a few weeks to gather the information I need to get this thing going. If you have any questions please redirect yourself to the links I posted above. I will most likely not answer in this topic much because this is posted in many forums and I don't have time to check every single one.

Thank you,
Dave S. Anderson

I think this would be a great opportunity for a lot of individuals who are looking for an in.

Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:05 pm
by alex.barylski
For example, I would teach a C# class for a month or so then switch over to C++, then on to Visual Basic, etc.) Doing multiple languages at the same time will most likely be a headache
So instead he'll prep another generation of developers just enough so they can say they "know" C or C# or C++ when really they just learn the syntax and haven't the slightest clue about what programming in C or C++ is really about? :P

Yup...this guy sounds like a real guru to me :P

Cheers :)

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:21 pm
by Trenchant
lol, you can trust that he knows what he's doing. From my understanding this is more of an introductory to the language. Anyone can learn after they've gotten started. The hard part is getting into a new language.

When I started learning PHP I didn't even know you could go to PHP.net and lookup functions and references. If I had been able to talk to people about it when I was learning I probably would have found it out.

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:26 pm
by timvw
Hockey wrote:
For example, I would teach a C# class for a month or so then switch over to C++, then on to Visual Basic, etc.) Doing multiple languages at the same time will most likely be a headache
So instead he'll prep another generation of developers just enough so they can say they "know" C or C# or C++ when really they just learn the syntax and haven't the slightest clue about what programming in C or C++ is really about? :P
Makes me think of The Optimizing Candidate ;)



Personally i prefer to get a decent book and learn from that... Afterwards i lear most from actual experience (so writing a lot of applications...).. And then i learn from spending time in forums trying to understand (and sometimes solve) other's problems...