I am having a little bit of problems with programming. 1. I fooled around with c++ and know most of the non OO console c++. As soon as I hit OO and heavy linked lists and queues it just goes way over my head. 2. I am currently doing VB and again the OO and classes and whatnot go over my head. 3. My goal is eventually being fairly proficent with windows programming, OOP, and direct x. Any suggestions, did anyone else have this happen? I am really frustrated and don''t know what to do. -Taphreek

If you see the inherant value of classes then by all means read how to use classes and use them. Otherwise though you have to write a complex enough program that it actually provides some benefit before the benefit will be apparent. The point at which classes actually provide a benefit is where you would otherwise be passing the same structure as a parameter to several differant functions. That implies that both the benefit of structures and functions are apparent to you. You can read a book on programming relatively quickly, but it takes a long time to learn to program. Read through a book, try out the examples, but then you have to try some ideas of your own. I find I learn very little from transcribing examples from books. Most of my understanding comes from trying to apply what I learned from a book to my own problems.

I''m gonna sound like your old man, but........ stick at it, practice makes perfect.

OO is a design pholosophy. Things like Inheritence, polymorphism and encapsulation should be (almost) second nature. If someone says ''Encapsulation'' you must think ''Black Box'', etc..... These things don''t occur overnight, but must be worked on.

By the way, don''t use linked lists in C++, look at the Standard Template Library (STL) take a look at the template classes vector and list.

D.V.

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