home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.engineering.electrical      Electrical engineering discussion forum      2,548 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 1,381 of 2,548   
   Don Kelly to Bilal Shah   
   Re: Is C++ a good language for an EE?   
   04 Dec 14 20:10:51   
   
   From: dhky@shaw.ca   
      
   On 03/12/2014 11:28 PM, Bilal Shah wrote:   
   > On Sunday, July 12, 1998 12:00:00 PM UTC+5, Matt wrote:   
   >> I have experience with C and I was wondering if it would be necessary for me   
   >> to learn C++ as an EE.  It's not a requirement at my college, but I know   
   >> computer engineers  who work with C++.  Any suggestions?   
   >   
   > i want some examples of programming there for our practice,and the siple way   
   to learn that...   
   >   
   If you have a good comfort level with a particular language and it is   
   adequate to your needs- use it. However, if you are in a place where   
   another language is used, it would be good to learn it. The jump form C   
   to C++ isn't that hard.   
   Personally, I think that C and C++ tend to concentrate on the computer   
   rather than the problem and often other languages are often   
   better-particularly for the jump from concept to program and the ability   
   to experiment with ways to handle parts of the whole program.   
   As a retired EE prof-I found APL exciting and useful and J is more so   
   but both have steep learning curves and neither are considered to be in   
   the main stream   
   A simple example is an arithmetic average in J   
   which is sum divided by count of items   
      
   mean=:+/ % #    +/ is sum % is division and # is the number of items   
      
   'mean 3 4 5' returns 4   
      
   That is the whole program- let the idiot box determine the need to deal   
   with integer, single and double precision.   
      
   --   
   Don Kelly   
   remove the cross to reply   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca