It really depends on what you are doing. If you are writing programs like, for example, Ms Word for windows or stuff like that then you would probably want to memorize just for the sake of programming speed.

I mean, if you use it enough your going to memorize it anyway, just cause you see it so often, so if it will be an everyday thing then there is no harm in knowing it by heart.

Any that''s what i think

Ooh. this was a neat bug.
The next post is mine as indicated...

-fel



Edited by - felisandria on 1/11/00 11:59:37 PM

I have noted a few things in my work as a programmer relating to this:

- If it''s useful enough, I will memorize it by using it often.

- If it''s not useful enough to memorize by repetition, it''s a waste of time to memorize it.

- It takes under 5 seconds to look something up in the MSDN libraries.

As far as I can tell, it''s not worth it to sit there and try to memorize stuff just for the sake of trivia, especially with MSVC Intellisense''s "complete the line for you" thing (which I find really spiffy)

-fel

CreateFile is overloaded to open things such as COM ports. Also you can do multithreading on any HANDLE opened by CreateFile, but you can''t on the standard FILE * structures. As in WaitOnMultipleEvent functions, etc.