[mlw1235]

I have a question for all of you out there! At my high school, for computer science they teach you to program in Turbo Pascal, to which my understanding, no one uses anymore. So today at school, my teacher who has no idea what he is doing, and admits that, says that for a final project we will need to make a tic tac toe game. Now, mind you that I have been in this class for a total of 7 days, for 1 and half hours each day and have learned next to nothing.

Do you think my computer teacher is setting his standards way to high or is it just me? And btw, any suggestions on how to program the game?

thanks, I know its a long way away but it is so frustrating to be in the class that hasn't learned anything! Matthew

[noRulez]

Well, possibly your situation is unfair, but I think you can look at it in two ways. You can say boo-hoo, my teacher doesn't know anything and thusly, I can't learn anything...or, you can take it upon yourself to gather up whatever resources you can and learn in a manner which I feel is more condusive to retaining knowledge anyhow. Teach yourself. You know, there was a point in time where people had to learn things on their own...it is possible. As far as Pascal not being used anymore...well, it was always a language to be used in teaching computer science and you can learn the fundamentals on it as you can with any language. Take it upon yourself to gain as much as you can out of the course, albeit mostly on your own merit...you will be a better person and programmer for it. Tic Tac Toe in Pascal should not be an impossible task given the time you have to learn what you need to. Hopefully you find yourself having fun, and trust me...it won't be an issue at that point.

[Phantasmagoria]

Yes, like NoRulez said, Pascal is a teaching language - its only use is to teach the fundementals of programming (of course you'll always find a few people here and there that use Pascal as their primary language, but the world of programming is dominated by C++ and VB (of the programmers I've come accross))

As far as a Tic-Tac-Toe game, it should be pretty easy. The only tough part would be bringing it from a half-***** game (half-***** meaning the program picks a random number, sees if there is an X/O on it, and either puts an X/O or picks a new random number until the game is over) to a sophisticated Tic-Tac-Toe game with a challenge :-)

[John]

In addition to what noRulez has already said, let me also add that the language you are using really doesn't matter all that much. For the most part lnaguages are a matter of Syntax only and it is the underlying concepts that are important. Once you learn one language well, it isn't all that hard to learn another one and apply the concepts there.

Some colleges use Java, some use C++, some use Pascal, it is all about the programming concepts, not the language.