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Need a programming book with real-world type problems

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jaeger66

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Soon I will be dragged kicking and screaming back into the world of programming. To brush up, I would like to read any book that gives programming problems/case studies so that you can develop the solution. I don't need need to be taught the how-tos, although an in depth explanation of a possible solution would be nice. Prefer C++, VB. I can't be any more specific since I'm not quite sure what I'll be doing yet.
 
Hmm, I don't know of any that go beyond tiny examples like a simple image viewer or text indexer, except some old "game engine" books that walk you through building a Wolfenstein-type semi-3D engine. You might be better off coming up with your own project (Yet Another Media Player, My Happy Thumbnailer, etc.) and asking people for advice if you get stuck on the design. That's more realistic anyway -- manangment tells you to design a doc-to-database app, you're on your own on how to implement it.

But you might get better responses if you're a bit more specific about what you'll be doing: UI-oriented or web/batch oriented? How big of an app? High-level design or down to the code level?

If it's just high-level management you're trying to learn, a programming book is probably the wrong choice anyway -- books on UML and some of the MS Press books like "Code Complete" might suit you better.
 
The basic project is for a fairly large local college and involves generating a letter to each factulty member each semester that lists the courses the school wants them to teach. The teacher either accepts as is or will turn down some or all of the classes. Right now it's simply done with an Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet will be ditched for a relational db, which will feed the data to an application which assigns teachers to classes and generates the letters. I assume at some point the letter system will be switched to some sort of website for each faculty member to log in to, but not right now. I would prefer to use VB for this unless someone has a good reason not to.
 
VB should be perfect for this -- the DB support is actually a little cleaner than in C++/MFC.

So a good "database programming in VB" book for a reference (I'd suggest spending time going through user reviews at Amazon), and for learning some VB database project. Got anything you want to organize and/or process in some way?
 
Yes, I like VB's data controls very much and i have a few custom ones that I'd hate to waste. Not sure about processing yet, the db is sketched out so I can use a dummy one for testing purposes but the real one is not my job. No requiremnts doc yet either, but spitball sessions lead me to think I can just load the teachers and courses into parallel arrays and delete the sections as they are assigned. But I need to figure out how to randomize it so that the courses are eveny divided among the teachers authorized to teach them.
 
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