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C++ Pointer Tutorial

My AP Computer Science teacher in High School had a Pascal pointer tutorial on his Mac. There was only one Mac, so everyone had to take turns using it to go through the tutorial. So for my final class project, I made a PC version. The year I got out of college, I visited him (he was responsible for me getting into Comp Sci). He told me that the AP test was moving to C++, and asked for a new version.

So here it is. It's a few years old now, but still good.

Anyone else do any puttering?

They're _finally_ moving to C++? I remember taking the AP test back in 1992. I didn't know Pascal well enough for that test, but that's ok, I would have been butchered if I skipped my first CS class.

The went to C++ 4 or 5 years ago. Last I heard, they were moving on to Java.

Yeah...sure...

I do a little PHP, Zope, Batch, and Bash. I frequently Python (wxPython too!) and VBA. I used to do an awful lot of VB and some occasional C++ ( and C), Ladder, assemby (X86, 68K, 8051, 6502), and FORTH (yeah its kind of like Latin or programming in yoda-speak). I've done a smattering of FORTRAN and Pascal.

I've avoided Java (favoring python); if I want something to take forever to compile (err, that's 'package' in java) , I'll just drop back to C++. I'll probably adopt wxWindows or Qt...or at least the thought has occurred to me.

I'm pretty much a code slut; if it runs on a computer, I'll bang it out on the keyboard...

I haven't found a good Cribbage Solitaire game that I've liked, so one of these days I'm going to drag out the compiler and make my own. I have the pseudocode for deck management and evaluating hands floating around my head, so it's just a matter of remembering enough of the C and C++ I learned in college to hammer it out.

(Or there's always Visual Basic, I guess. I'm probably the one person who didn't hack together a card game using cards.dll and put it out there as a shareware app in 1994.)

Wrote Othello (the game) in LISP once.

I really kind of suck as a programmer, more of a dabbler actually. But over the years I've turned out some marketable stuff. My latest is here:

Handheld software

Just something I wrote that brings in a little fun money, someday I should probably get serious about it.