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lemahieu@paradise.caltech.edu wrote:
: That this class is "in Windows" also makes me wary.  C++ is not specific
: to any operating system, and it shouldn't be learned that way.  You may
: need to use libraries specific to your operating system when doing real
: programming, but that's not C++.

Speaking of this, I've *NEVER* seen any ad for any of these
correspondance courses for C++. Can someone cite me a magazine's month
and year that has this?

The only Windows programming course I've seen is based on Visual Basic.
It has a C component, but it is Power C in DOS. I highly recommend just
sending MIX software $25, since you'd get a book as good as anything
else and you could use the other $1975 for buying a monster Pentium and
a Linux CD-ROM :)

I became profoundly skeptical of any of these schools when I saw a
COBOL course that was taught on a sub-standard 386 (yes, in 1995!) and
used some COBOL I'd never heard of instead of MicroFocus or some other
industry leader. Hardly would that prepare you for the real world of
programming! I imagine all the others are the same way. Given that
underwhelming system (and I imagine the training would have to be
equally underwhelming), I just bought a COBOL book.

Scott