C++ help

Well, it says Room is 472 square feet in size. Generally square footage of a room is the area of the floor in the room, which can not possibly be 472 square feet.

Sorry, Bob.

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I know what you mean, MJ. It should really be paintable Surface Area. But who are we to correct a teacher's failings?

ty bob i figure out how now. to find the number of cans i have to divide paintarea by 250. I got my teacher lab yay thank you god i better learn c++ fast or i will be confuse next quarter when i get to work with torque engine.

What are the major differences between C++ and VB?

If you know how to do everything in VB, and know what the same functions would be in C++, then would you be able to write C++ programs using a VB one as a base?

What are the major differences between C++ and VB? If you know how to do everything in VB, and know what the same functions would be in C++, then would you be able to write C++ programs using a VB one as a base?

You could use the same functions in a C++ program as you could in a VB program via DLL's, I believe. Syntactically, they're a bit different, so simply knowing VB would not allow you to code in C++, but I don't think it would be too difficult to pick up on it. I believe you can write functions in C++, put them in DLLs and then use those functions on a VB program. As for simply continuing a VB program in C++, I wouldn't be surprised if it is possible, although I have no earthly idea how to do it. I don't know VB, though, so don't quote me on any of this. I've only dabbled around with it.

VB is missing a good bit of the functionality of C++ is because of its simplicity. You can do anything that you can do in VB in C++ and vice versa, but typically complex programs aren't written in VB. VB isn't very well adapted to object oriented programming. And finally, C++ is much faster.

I see.

So how easy is C++ to learn:

a) With no prior experience with any programming language?
b) With experience with things like VB?

You can do anything that you can do in VB in C++ and vice versa,

Can you do system level programming and such with VB?

a.) Lenny, C was the first language I picked up on, which is not so dissimilar from C++. It was not difficult at all.

b.) It would help considerably.