Originally Posted by
Departure
Wow interesting story, from C# and assume to vb.net because I can't see anyone going from C# to a language like vb6 or earlier. Anyway you code in C++ now right? well the best method of getting your point across is leading by example, so why don't your write some tutorials for the new C++er's to learn from, this way they must make an effort to read or watch your tutorials, and thats the first part of "learning to code" is by making an effort to research and learn from tutorials. You are only feeding there laziness by giving source code to them, how can expect someone to learn something when its given to them without any explanation on how and why it works. So really its not the noobs fault...
I have question for the "Pro" coders..
Have you guys ever even made a full GUI application in C++? Are you guys aware of the different data types for C++? why is everything either a boolean or integer, if you knew your data type's you would know about "short" and knows its half the size of an integer, most of the code I have seen doesn't require the full integer range and could be dealt with a short instead thus saving memory at runtime. but that's just a small example, Any real "Pro Coder" would write his code for proformence, So while I do agree there are "Pro Hack Coder" and there are a few that fit into this catagory on this forum, but using the term "Pro Coder" is too far fetched considering most have never gone out side the hack world of coding(that's what makes them so good at coding hacks).
If you guys actually did start and explain or write tutorials about C++ coding in this particular scene I would be the first one to read it, I am noob when it comes to C++ but I would like to see someone teach this without trolling or "learn C++" comments