Console C++
Hi, a month ago I completed a C++ class. Everything they taught was on the console screen, that is, the text only interface.
And then, I find out that C++ programs these days are all GUI and we don't use iostream and all that.
Does this mean that everything I learnt was wasted?
It's a miracle that curiosity survives formal education - Albert Einstein
That is not true.Originally Posted by Dakshin
Even if you never write another C++ program in your life, the thinking and problem solving skills that you acquired in the process can be useful when applied in other programming languages, and maybe even in other areas of your life, study and/or work.
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iostreams are still used to print to files, which is an important feature.
Thanks a lot! You have no idea how big a weight has been lifted from my shoulders and all that sort of thing.
Last edited by Dakshin; 05-23-2013 at 07:24 AM.
It's a miracle that curiosity survives formal education - Albert Einstein
Well that is up to you. What Laserlight said is even if you don't you will still have learnt something.
Also the idea that learning how input/output from the console works is somehow useless because of the GUI alternatives is simply nonsense. Nobody has ever learned to do GUI in C++ before they learnt how to use the console. Also many large and complicated projects use the console exclusively, one such example is GCC, but there are tons of examples really.
How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
Every time you want to test a new idea, you want to strip away all the irrelevancies and just focus on the problem at hand.
Producing a quick console program to do this is almost always the way to go.
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
