Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Methods for understanding complex, real world, C++ code? Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:36:41 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1334183801 8172 166.84.1.5 (11 Apr 2012 22:36:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:36:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:15305 In article , mathog wrote: >The C++ books and tutorials are all clear and wonderful about objects >and methods but they only ever give toy examples. This was one of my disappointments with college 'education'. They teach you how to write programs, from scratch, all by yourself, which are probably no more than ten pages long. Employers don't give a s--- about that, they want to know if you can grok an existing codebase, get up to speed, interact with the people who know about it, deal with people who are no longer there, and mentor the 'new guys' so they can do something useful.