Monday, March 08, 2010

How to Learn C++ in 21 Days

3 comments:

cybrbeast said...

You having a hard time learning C? :)

annom said...

Yes, but I'm already past day 21. There are a few msc students in my room who try to learn C++ from a "Teach yourself C++ in 21 one days" book. It has over 900 pages and is just impossible to do in 21 days, and even if you read it all, you still can't do much in C++.

I actually am a programming god in this room (well, almost ;) ). It's good to have something to contribute since all simulation and plotting software is written in C or C++. We use the CERN data visualization tool (ROOT) that I'm learning now (code based). It's created to plot huge amounts of data and amazingly fast compared to other plotters I know (Matlab and Gnuplot).

I almost explained a weird phenomena in our data today. Most agreed that I was right, but I found out I wasn't :(

cybrbeast said...

Good to see you settling in. Must indeed be great that your not the total n00b there, but actually have useful skillz