fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeffrey Davis) (02/26/91)
I am a professional programmer, but got involved in the "art" in an arse-backwards way: i.e. I have a minimum of formal training. Many of the facets of the "art" are simply beyond my understanding: compilers, grammers, the niceties of optimization. I'm a carpenter not a cabinet maker. But I've been able to adjust to the change in "tools" and have regularly upgraded my Pascal compilers -- even to TP 6.0. At this point, particularly, w/ TurboVision, I have to say I'm swamped. There seems to be a half-zillion doo-dads and what-nots involved with using TurboVision. Is the general idea supposed to be: ignore the details, this is "plug-and-play" programming. I have to confess that even at that level, even reading through Borland's examples, that little outline or organization emerges. Is there anywhere a decent tutorial on OOP and event-driven programming "out there" for the non-hierophantic programmer. The Borland oriented books in the past have seemed to be a re-hash of Borland's own manuals, so any other help than that would be appreciated. Or is there a better organized set of tools out there that someone could recommend? I can usually get anything necessary, but it has to be a specific product. No fishing expeditions. -- He: 10, tenor and tubby: What y'all gonna do with them babies? [A pail of St Simons Island crabs] She: 16, mezzo, languid in a deck chair, mildly mocking behind Ray-Bans: Ahm gonna put them babies into a MILKSHAKE!