Bruce Eckel's CD

[arnuld]

Hi,

recently i downloaded "Thinking in C" CD from Bruce Eckel's web-site
as i wanted to learn C++ from his book "Thinking in C++". the CD did
not play well on my LIGNUX distro (well it's my term, LIGNUX, a cure
for whether LINUX or GNU/Linux.) Eckel's CD is based on Flash 7 & i had
Flash 7 plugin already installed. after struggling with it for 5 days i
finally managed to paly it & play it well. so i am posting my solution
so that others can save their precious time as folks of this group
always helped me in solving my problems . originally i asked this
question on "comp.os.linux.misc" & nobody replied to it. anyway here is
the solution:

my distro: Debian Sarge x86. (CD does not work even on Fedora). Flash
7 plugin installed in my home directory i.e. in .mozilla/plugins/. Get
Flash 7 for LIGNUX by google-ing.


SOLUTION:

i found that the links to the lectures in the "index" page in "Thinking
in C" CD point to the HTML file of that particular chapter e.g. if i
click on "Start Lecture" for chapter 1 then this link is pointing to
"this-is-path/thinking-in-c/html/chap1/Lecture.html". then i went down
into that chap1 folder abd saw that there was also a "Lecture.swf"
file. i right-clicked it played it in Mozilla & it played.

so i only changed the links in "index" file to point to ".swf" files
instead of "html" files e.g
"this-is-path/thinking-in-c/html/chap1/Lecture.html" changed to
"this-is-path/thinking-in-c/html/chap1/Lecture.swf". Original page
works well in WINDOWS but only modified page works in LIGNUX.

thanks

"arnuld"

 

[Noah Roberts]

Hi,

recently i downloaded "Thinking in C" CD from Bruce Eckel's web-site
as i wanted to learn C++ from his book "Thinking in C++".

Then you should download that book. Why did you download a book about
a language other than the one you want to learn?

 

[shadowman615]

Then you should download that book. Why did you download a book about
a language other than the one you want to learn?

Yes, that certainly is confusing. Yoy wanted to learn C++ from
"Thinking in C++," so you downloaded "Thinking in C " ??

 

[arnuld]

Then you should download that book. Why did you download a book about
a language other than the one you want to learn?

yeah, i downloaded it 1 week ago but i was struggling with chapter 3 "C
in C++" that is why i downloaded the CD. anyway. His book is good. i
was reading "C++ primer" 3/e & it took me 45 minutes to run 2
programmmes. with "TICPP" i took 30 second to create the programme in
my mind. it seems Bruce fits into my cognitive-process.

I remember you Noah, you helped me lot (reagrding Knuth's book, i still
owe many thanks to you). by the way,are you a woman or a man, not a C++
specific question ;-), just asking.


thanks

"arnuld"

 

[mlimber]

Noah Roberts wrote: [snip]
I remember you Noah, [...] by the way,are you a woman or a man [...]

<OT>I've never met (virtually or otherwise) a woman named after a
Hebrew patriarch (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah), and according
to the US's Social Security Administration
(http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames), in the last 100 years, Noah has
never registered in the top 1000 as a girl's name but has every year
for boy's names. I'd say you can make a good guess based on that
information. </OT>

Cheers! --M

 

[arnuld]

<OT>I've never met (virtually or otherwise) a woman named after a
Hebrew patriarch (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah), and according
to the US's Social Security Administration
(http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames), in the last 100 years, Noah has
never registered in the top 1000 as a girl's name but has every year
for boy's names. I'd say you can make a good guess based on that
information. </OT>

Ha...Ha....great..m..i liked it

ok...i got it.

Cheers! --M

I am cheers-ing ;-)


"arnuld"