Need Guidance for a better way of studying programming... Please help me teachers.

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  1. EW Luxore

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    I have been finding hard times to study programming. During classes, we are just given problems right away then on the spot lecturing without even explaining in detailed the flows and conditions of procedures. To dear experts, can you give me some guidelines to effectively study programming? I usually only end up with nothing analyzing problems and understanding codes whose principles are not taught. Is it possible to understand programming with just experimentation? Thanks. Your helpful answer will be much appreciated.
     
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    Re: Need Guidance for a better way of studying programming... Please help me teachers

    I can mail you a nice book that I recieved for my open distance studies, You dont even need a lecturer if you have that book. Send me your email.
     
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    Hey spoonwizard, what book is that? I would like it to. You can see me email in my profile because I don't want to post it here because of the web spiders. Can you please send it to me? Thanks.
     
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    i sent it to your email with subject C++ Book, the file is PDF and named COS111U as that is the name of one of my subjects.
     
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    Got it. Thanks!
     
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    I am wanting to learn C++ as I was told it will help me in my future programming. Could you possibly email that book to me too?
     
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    Whats your email address?
     
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    Re: Need Guidance for a better way of studying programming... Please help me teachers

    moogle1979@gmail.com
     
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    I sent it to you..
     
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    Re: Need Guidance for a better way of studying programming... Please help me teachers

    Thank you Spoon, some people were telling me floats are bad with currency and well I have to create a currency program in C for my programming class and the teacher is promoting floats.
     
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    Well I am glad that I could be of assistance.
     
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    Hello sir... here is my e-mail: e.w.luxore@live.com.ph
     
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    I sent it to you too...
     
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    I think u can refer this book for C++ programming..it is written by Robert A Lafore.. there is lot of things described in this its regarding c++ and data structures also.
     
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    Re: Need Guidance for a better way of studying programming... Please help me teachers

    Floats aren't bad for currency per se but you have to be aware of the limitations of converting between decimal and binary. For example 1.76 cannot be specified as an exact binary number, just as 1/3 cannot be expressed as an exact decimal number; in both cases, if you have a limited number of digits to play with you will get errors. So 1/3 to 4dp is 0.3333, but 0.3333 != 1/3. Similarly 1.76 to 8bp=1.11000010, but actually 1.76=1.(11000010100011110101) - using brackets to denote recurring digits, so in the same way you could express 1/3 exactly as 0.(3), or 1/7 as 0.(142857). 0.3333!=1/3; it's off by exactly 0.0000(3).

    There was a film some years ago based around someone in a bank filtering off all the fractional results into their own account. Nobody would notice if their account was changed from $1234.120573857264 to $1234.12, but all those $0.000573857264's added up. The daft twit made the mistake of turning up to work the next day in an expensive sports car...
     
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    Thats clever thinking but not the part about the sportscar.
     

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