Any C++ People? Online Tutor Request.

[Coldkilla]

I know asking for homework help is not allowed, but this is not homework I am having problems with.

I am having some serious problems in my C++ class in college (Beginning C++). This is going to be the career field I will be in when I graduate and this class is much more than a grade to me. My professor says reading from a book for C++ is a very poor way of teaching the craft of C++ when programming and practicing is the best way to learn.

However, I tried this approach and now am stuck, left behind the rest of the class. I don't know a prototype from a definition. I'd ask for help from the pro's at AT, but asking for specific things on multiple threads can get very confusing.

I was wondering if there was someone knowledgeable in the C++ field that would be willing to answer any questions I may have when coming across a program that I am writing at the time. It's gotten to the point where the instructor is a different world than I am, I don't understand his terminology, his lanquage usage, his teaching method.. He and the rest of the class are moving on and I'm falling behind incredibly fast. I'd like to have a real tutor but they are all occupied with other students for the rest of the semester. I'm very introverted and don't want to talk to anyone in class (Been like this for 19 years, and don't see a rapid change in lifestyle anytime soon). My professor always has 15 kids in his room and never has a chance to sit one on one with me.

The trip to college is well over an hour drive. The TA's are only availble at times I am not in school and/or am working. I'm currently rereading the 200+ pages of C++ book, noting everything important on each page.. and doing every section/chapter review for each of them. Hopefully this will lead me somewhere.. but I highly doubt it.

I don't know how everyone else does it.. so I come to AT asking for help. Just PM me if you would be willing to answer any questions I may have. (I write fairly descriptive questions to make sure that they are easy to understand).

Thanks and, if my thread is inappropriate (This isn't 'homework help).. but if its not allowed.. I guess mods can delete it

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[tfinch2]

Have you tried walking through a C++ tutorial, but rather than just reading actually doing the exercises along with it?

 

[purbeast0]

Why don't you go get help from your TA's?

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
Why don't you go get help from your TA's?

Or just hang out in the CS lab for help? There should be a few upperclassman in there that will lend a hand. I know I do with all of the n00bs in the programming 101 classes.

 

[Coldkilla]

The trip to college is well over an hour drive. The TA's are only availble at times I am not in school and/or am working.

I'm currently rereading the 200+ pages of C++ book, noting everything important on each page.. and doing every section/chapter review for each of them. Hopefully this will lead me somewhere.. but I highly doubt it. Meanwhile, coming online during my class breaks would be nice to ask a question or two regarding something I don't know.

edit: my TA can't hardly speak english. She copy's the notes from the professor on a chalk-board.. she mumbles, hardly speaks.. I requested a change in TA.. but they were all full.

 

[oznerol]

If it's a beginner's C++ class, you probably won't go too in-depth. There is a multitude of online resources to help you out with terminologies and whatnot.

What are you having problems with - coding assignments or the terminology or what? I agree with your professor - actual coding is much more useful than reading. However, I was always very bad with memorizing the useless stuff for those classes but I was a great programmer.

If you are having problems solving programming problems, then I can definitely help. It's also good to search for example code and modify it to your use. Just about everything a beginner does has been posted on the web in one form or another.

This site is a bit helpful for generic code you can freely modify.

If you are having problems with the terms and multiple choice answers and all of the boring (and typically useless) efficiency math and whatnot that goes along with programming, then I can't help, as I did horribly with that stuff as well.

:beer:

 

[Ameesh]

just ask your questions and we can help out. there are a handfull of c/c++ guys on the forums myself included which should be able to answer your questions.