c programming(am I in over my head?)
I just signed up at the local community college to take a C programming class. There was a pre-requisite of a basic programming concepts class, but I didn't think that I needed it since I already know SQL/PLSql, not like guru ville or anything, but I know em. So I asked the teacher for permission and she gave me permission, but not before this huge speach on how she wasn't going to go back and reteach the other class, etc. Now, I was pretty confident before, but now its a little shaken, does anyone out there think I am getting in over my head?
Re: c programming(am I in over my head?)
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Originally posted by placebo
I just signed up at the local community college to take a C programming class. There was a pre-requisite of a basic programming concepts class, but I didn't think that I needed it since I already know SQL/PLSql, not like guru ville or anything, but I know em. So I asked the teacher for permission and she gave me permission, but not before this huge speach on how she wasn't going to go back and reteach the other class, etc. Now, I was pretty confident before, but now its a little shaken, does anyone out there think I am getting in over my head?
Well, personally, I don't think so. As long as you can learn C, you're well off. Just don't expect to do very well without the programming concepts class. Simply being able to write in C doesn't make you a good programmer. There are certain things that good programmers do and other programmers don't. It's like a good author. Many people know how to speak english, but only a few can write a good book.
A few tips:
-- Keep things compact and functional. If you have to do the same thing more than once in your code, make it a function. This keeps the code nicely separated for when you have to make changes to your applications.
-- Make sure you comment everything, every little last detail. It will help you if you have to go back and work on something you don't remember everything about.