CubeD

Simple question, could someone who finished school with zero grades possibly get the basic understanding of C++, With books and some hard devoted work is C++ that hard to learn for anyone?

Thx

crawforddavid2006

Probobly. You can do anything if you really try hard enough.

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Sane

What do you mean by "zero grades". You dropped out? You got 0% on your report card? Or is this a term only used by a non-american school system or something?

Either way, good luck keeping the old saying true, "you can do anything you try". O_O

CubeD

I didnt drop out i finished all my subjects but failed every single one, like i got F in all of them, anyways thanks for the slight motivation

Sane

Now, the age old question every parent asks their child in this situation, "did you try your hardest?"

From the looks of it, to me you are one of three people.

1) You are one of the guys from my enrichment class who thinks everything will just come to them. They don't try, don't do their homework, and end up failing classes and not caring.

2) You could be mentally slow (these are my most favorite friends. ^_^).

3) You're neither "stupid" nor "smart", but you know you can try better and get better marks. However, you don't see any motivation to do so.


I have friends in all three situations who have tried programming, and these are the general outcomes of these situations: If you are one, you could program but you might not be too productive. Three, the hardest part will be getting started. Two, you'll find it boring and stupid.


Or am I missing everything, and it's just some really tragic reason why you failed all your courses, like cancer @_@? Enlighten me.

CubeD

You could'nt of been more accurate with your predictions, personally i think its mainly down to reason 1, i cant be botherd, but i have found some things like gfx designing with photoshop boring at first, once i got into it i enjoyed it, ill give programming a few months but if i loose intrest after that amount of time, i just give up

CubeD

Actually the area i think id like to learn is like writing firewalls and protection programs for banks, dont really know why but i think thats what would intrest me, is C++ the correct language to use for this type of programming?

Booooze

That's extremly high end. Not to say you couldn't do it, but you will have to do a lot of other, possibly more boring stuff before you have enough skill to attempt something like that. You are definetly going to need to do schooling for it, and I doubt with "zero grades" you will get in to the courses needed . For something like this, you need to be good at math.

Sane

Most security related programming (if not, all), will be done in the same language that the server was programmed in. Now adays, if I'm not mistaken, most servers are programmed in C++?

Unless you are talking about an external program that will be protecting a server by filtering certain packets and refusing connections. I'm not sure if that is very commonly used, as I don't believe this kind of infiltrations are a problem. The main involvement with internet security is usually authentication of user sessions and transferring of payments, which all involves strong server-side programming in the language the server was programmed in.

Firewalls are a completely different story, you just need a language that is fast and has access to all the standard libraries.

CubeD

Well i aint in no rush to learn tones of languages and things, im 17 at the moment so ill have plenty of practise time, i can go to college i surpose and just start of a beginner but when im 18 ill have to pay for college which i cant afford :o