I agree with furtivefelon I once tryed to learn msma 6 from the refrence manual
you can't learn from a text book
sams teach yourself c++ 24h was prety bad but it did cover stuf what I did learn most from was writing a program that asigned numbers to words and compresssed plain text
asembly language is like chess it is not like programing
chess you lear to move a pawn three melenia later you become a master
programing you learn the basics three melenia later you are still working on the basics
you get what I mean
as I said I am spotty
I wrote this http://www.geocities.com/timothypir2/Games.html forinstance and I couldn't get the picures to work in applets so I left them out
my current education is this
I have played with snobol a lot
read and comleated sams teach yourself c++ in 24 hours
lots of java
lots of c++
some vb 2005
many hours of c# but I wouldn't say lots
I can read most programing languages
it wasn't made for scratch or by hackers
unix was developed at birkly university some date
gcc 1.2 "i think that's the right version" kicked but so gnu was started to protedct it from the evil empire
linux was developed
linux got a big boost when it became the modle simuataor for space...
so does ms ceritfied mean anything or not?
I would still like to repair some of my spoty education.
forinstance I don't understand all the static and virtual function stuff wich should be simple it was just never in any of the books I read
512 megs of ram is not enough base system on nlong horn is 8 gigs unlike the 6 xp uses
when you run xp on a 512 comp if it hase less than about 10 gigs of free hd space you are running with comprestion
o ps onghorn is probably not going to have a fixed or static filesystem so when you install...
You only NEED an teacher for the loops and variables at least I needed one but at the time I was 9
I ended up with a VERY spoty education
I wouldsugjest reading and entire sieries of books the best place to start "I think" is here http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/