Dal's Programming Course

Prerequisites

You should know a little bit about programming in C. You should be able to write a "hello world" program, compile and link it, and run it on a console. You need to know about C assignment statements, basic types (like ints and doubles), conditional and flow control statements (if, for, while), functions, and argument passing. It would be nice if you know something about structures and pointers. You should also know a little about include files.

You will need a Windows computer, preferable running WindowsXP. You might get away with running under Windows98, NT or 2000, but I haven't tested my code for these versions.

You will need your own copy of Visual C++ .NET (2003) from Microsoft, installed on your computer. Make sure you have the latest MSDN documentation installed with the Visual C++. The MSDN documentation comes with Visual C++ .NET (2003) product.

You should have a copy of "C++ Programming Language (Third Edition)" by Stroustrup.

You will need about one or two hours for each lesson.

You will need about two hours to review the reading material that I posted at the start of the course.