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Johann Wrote:Yes, C++ is related. If you know C, you can learn C++ very quickly. Another popular recent relative is C# (C sharp.) Come to think of it, there are many more languages in the C family tree. Here's some info on about 70 C-related languages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C-..._languages
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Thanks - good to know. I've been out of programming for quite a few years, and I thought that everything would have changed over the years. I was REALLY surprised to find that my skills would just need a bit of updating in order to re-enter the programming field!
I remember the C book very clearly because I liked it so much! The teacher was not good, but the book was so clear that I had no trouble at all learning C on my own - something that never happened with the other languages. I think the author was Ritchie - the original creator of C, I think.
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Same with me! I just keep them on a little bookshelf in my room every time I pass a CLEP
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zapproximator Wrote:Same with me! I just keep them on a little bookshelf in my room every time I pass a CLEP
You're 13, so none of your college textbooks are old yet.  milelol:
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Someone mentioned COBOL. COBOL is antiquated and not very fashionable, but there are actually a lot of jobs (at least where I live) that require a working knowledge of COBOL. I wouldn't steer a young person toward putting all of their eggs in the basket of a 58-year-old programming language, but if you learn COBOL, you can likely get a good job, since it's hard to find people who understand COBOL.
SQL is very much still around. Some big social media sites have moved on to NoSQL databases, but to this day, pretty much every human activity is recorded in a relational database somewhere, and usually it's SQL-based. (If you view or post on this forum, you're using SQL!)
I'd probably keep all of my textbooks (except maybe the ones that still have high resale value) if I had infinite space. Sadly, I don't.
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sanantone Wrote:You're 13, so none of your college textbooks are old yet. milelol:
That's true! But my dad does it for his dental textbooks... 
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Bibby Wrote:COBOL is antiquated and not very fashionable, but there are actually a lot of jobs ... that require a working knowledge of COBOL. ...if you learn COBOL, you can likely get a good job, since it's hard to find people who understand COBOL. Antiquated and not very fashionable? Sounds perfect for me! And jobs? Could a 74-year-old man really find happiness with a 58-year-old programming language? COBOL was the very first College course I took - and the first programming course I took anywhere, back when I was a young whippersnapper approaching 40! Started my transcript with an A!
The book? All I remember was - it was a shiny green paperback. I still have it but it's in a box somewhere. Good teacher. Lousy book. Haven't thought about COBOL in years, but I still remember the four divisions - ID, Environment, Data, Procedure, if I remember right. It was back in the days of punchcards - what fun!
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I've kept maybe 5 textbooks through the years. An Art Appreciation textbook for years that has some really good content and photos. An upper level economics textbooks that are over 20 years old that I like to browse through every 3 or 4 years. Organic chemistry, and Heredity textbook. They don't really need to be updated.
A couple of my old textbooks are still being used 20+ yrs after I used them, several editions later. Strange how little the content has changed over that time, and such a waste to charge students $100 for those things. Shameful is probably a better word.
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Johann Wrote:Sometimes, textbooks never get too old. I kept my GW-BASIC books from the 1980s and I'm glad I did. Last year, I wrote some GWBASIC programs using coloured ASCII characters, to run on my Windows machine under VDOS - a free DOS environment that displays perfectly on wide screens with crystal-clear fonts. I did a few things, like tribal rug designs, butterflies etc. just to see if I still could. VDOS is amazing. All your old DOS stuff comes to life and looks better than it ever did. Only text-based programs or ASCII. Other images revert to 640x480. ASCII art, ASCII graphics - any size screen you have. Crisp and clear!
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That's actually really cool. I play a lot of text-based games (MUDs and MUSHes) and I always liked ASCII art and using different colored fonts in descriptions.
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Best textbook score ever - at my local CC (where I am right now.) I'm a photography nut (nearly 40 years now) and the College went to a new edition for its History of Photography textbook. The new edition is nearly $150. The college bookstore sold me a brand-new copy of the previous edition for $5! Beautiful book!
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