Globe & Mail - Ubuntu 9.10 First Look

[=NukeBlaze=]

Aye, that is the reason I am taking a c++ class. C++ has been very flexible, and it is more suited for numeral calculations than anything else I have used. Programming is an accessory skill next to physics/math to me. I am more versed in computer and digital/analogue circuits than I am in software development.

The class I am in are using a SUN OS with accounts. They wanted us to telnet into it and make code from pico editor on the server. IT was a nightmare for most of the class for one reason or another, as they are probably not firmware with UNIX commands, networking, etc. I grabbed Visual c++ IDE for my windows 7 partition, as I found eclipse to be a pain in the neck to install on windows. I was looking at Qt recently just to see what GUI options it had as everything I write for class and in excess has launch parameters, cin'ed or sampled from a serial port line.

I've seen C code, but it is messy to me. Some of my Profs use it, probably because it is what they had, but I would take c++ over it.

Certain markups, such as latex, I am familiar with, but I use LYX as an writer. I've actually been looking into Arduiino since it is based on c++. I am hoping for better hardware interfacing for experiments with it.


The is the problem with budgets. In order to get anything done, you need to know something about everything. I have been looking into making an LED lighting system that is PWM controlled for dimming. I can do the circuits design and power supplies, however a better control system is probably going to be ardunio based with a digital potentiometer...as I hate slider pots.

[Garfunkel]

haha, sun OS stuff is what my Uni has too. We don't have to use pico (thank god), we do get ubuntu machines in the labs though, but our code has to compile on the sun boxes because that is what they mark with.

[=NukeBlaze=]

Aye, I basically just note I am compiling in Visual c++ when I turn in code, and I set the compile as non windows.

If it the same version of the g++, I don't think it should matter what *NIX you compile it on. I just happen to be using windows predominately this semester. When I write, I either use my laptop or I go back to a desktop I have fedora/windows xp on in the physics department. The desktop is locked down by our info services, but I managed to get the admin password and make a local admin account. After a day long battle with enterprise macfee, I finally banished it into the digital void...horrible AV. The desktop I use in the lap takes a fifth of the time to boot to desktop now compared to the others.

[Garfunkel]

yeah. The biggest issue for us was that the version of the compiler they were using was from like 1788 or something, so you got the occasional error, that was it. And in one of the subjects we were required to submit with the sun CC compiler, which doesn't allow you do do things like:

int lolbar = 49;
Donkey *fish = new Donkey[lolbar];

You have to use constants for sizes

[curryking1]

Ya sorry, I meant 1.03, whatever is the latest release. I haven't been able to find 1.03 myself, but then again I was searching by '1.3' so that might have made it more difficult lol.

Ya it looks like VLC 1.03 is out on Linux, everything I've found so far is a tar.bz2 package, although I've only searched a bit so far. I'm still not very good at compiling myself so if you run across a .deb let me know lol.

[JasonXe]

Still learning c++. I wish someone would of emphasis pseudocode when i first started since it makes coding easier to understand. I've grasp a couple of concepts that I would of never gotten out of this book.