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about current developers experiences. I had to learn vba for work, and since I am gaining familiarity with VBA, I was interested in getting active VB.net developers opinions on is vb.net a logical next step for someone who is interested in gaining experience in programming? I confess that I don't …

The program is compiling and I'm not getting any errors, but when I run the program, after I enter the first value, the program just terminates. [CODE]//carstruct.cpp -- Structure with information about cars #include <iostream> using namespace std; struct car {char make[20]; int year;}; int main() { int cars; cout …

I am currently attempting to teach myself C++ so I don't have the benefit of a prof or TA. The question at the end of the chapter that I'm working on wants me to create an array of structures and to initialize the array of structures using the new function. …

I am having difficulty with nested loops. I am attempting to create a program that has the user enter monthly data during the course of a three year period. here is what I have so far. [code=C++] #include <iostream> const int Months = 12; const int Years = 3; int …

Hello all, I am attempting to learn C++ on my own. I am going through the book C++ Primer by Steven Prada, in case anyone has the book. At the end of every chapter, they give programming problems and I am having trouble with one of the problems. Essentially the …

Hello all, I am not taking a class or asking for help with homework. I am attempting to learn C++ on my own and I do not understand the logic within one of the sample programs within my book. [code=Cpp] #include <iostream> #include <string> int main() { using namespace std; …

Hello all, I have already graduated from undergrad but I did not major in computer science. I didn't really become interested in it until I started doing some web development on my own. I am in finance and with the credit crisis taking away a lot of jobs on the …

Hey, I am currently teaching myself C++ as well. The book that I would recommend, even more so than the teach yourself C++ in 21 days is another Sams book by Stephen Prata entitled "C++ Primer Plus". This is hands down the best programming book I have ever purchased.

Hello all, I am currently attempting to learn how to program and I am unable to take a class because of my work schedule. I was just wondering if anyone could recommend any books that will help just with learning the basics of programming and not necessarily any one particular …

If one has no formal programming training how would you suggest going about learning java? Would it be necessary to learn another language first such as C++ or could one just grab an intro to Java book and dive right in?

I'm very new to Ruby and programming in general, so this may or may not help you. Ruby has this thing called Rdoc that generates an html document from your comments. You can format it like an html document as well which makes it easy to read. At the top …

Hi all, this forum seems to have sparse traffic, so if you stumble upon this thread I want to request that you please give your opinion on the following question. I am currently a rails developer and I was looking to add another language to my CV, I just wanted …