I hate C++! Changing majors advice?

Switch and don't tell them. You don't HAVE to tell them, just let them find out and then be anal to them about how they never went to college.

But I am also going to be switching schools next year, so thats kinda hard :S

Why don't you stick with it for a little while and keep going at it, try to make some sense of it.
Don't flop over and give up completely, just yet.

[quote name='jph' post='1761653' date='Feb 8 2009, 02:24 PM']Why don't you stick with it for a little while and keep going at it, try to make some sense of it.
Don't flop over and give up completely, just yet.[/quote]

I'm trying man, I'm trying. Its horrible though!

Well, if you're certain that it's not your thing.. than get out of it! If you're not happy doing that, I don't see the point.

About money, I believe that, when you really like what you're doing, you're gonna do it well, and if you do your job well, money will come. Simple like that.

Many people might not agree with me, but.. that's what I think.

edit: On another note, I like C++, but it's a really hard language.

If you need help learning about classes, vectors, pointers, etc, why not just hit up one of the members of GBATemp? We're mostly programmers here, we can help.

What exactly do you not understand?

[quote name='Exershio' post='1761658' date='Feb 8 2009, 02:27 PM']If you need help learning about classes, vectors, pointers, etc, why not just hit up one of the members of GBATemp? We're mostly programmers here, we can help.

What exactly do you not understand?[/quote]

I just don't know what to do with them! This is my first assignment and I don't even know where to begin

http://www.cs.uleth.ca/~bomhof/cs2620A/assn/assn1.txt

I think I'm going to try and start coding that assignment now. See if I can get anywhere, and reference my text if I get messed (which I will)

[quote name='science' post='1761655' date='Feb 8 2009, 04:25 PM'][quote name='jph' post='1761653' date='Feb 8 2009, 02:24 PM']Why don't you stick with it for a little while and keep going at it, try to make some sense of it.
Don't flop over and give up completely, just yet.[/quote]

I'm trying man, I'm trying. Its horrible though!
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I'm not Dr. Phil, but that's life for ya yo. There's shit you're not going to like to do but you have to do anyway.

Stick with it - you've come too far to through it away. You liked the class at the beginning, how do you know it's not going to pick up and get interesting again? And of course, you're in college - it's pretty much a given you're should be busting your ass reading text books trying to comprehend subjects.
Personally I think you should stick with it for the rest of the year and see how it goes. Then next year when you swap colleges you could start debating whether or not you want to swap majors.

But hey, it's your life and this is about you and your parents, do what you feel you have to do. If you don't want to be programming software, etc. for the rest of your life then do something about. It'd taken my cousin a lot of wasted money and time to finally figure out what he wanted to pursue and which major he felt comfortable..majoring in.

Is this class you major; looking at it as your possible career? Or is just another class? If this is suppose to be your future and you don't like it this early on, you need to get out know. You don't want to get in to deep to the point where its to hard to get out.

Yeah, I am going to stick with this class for the semester and see if I really do hate it. But I don't think my stance is going to change. Bleh.

wow, that was quite a painfully written assignment... our assignments were written less formal.
but really, that assignment isn't too hard if you strip all the bull shit text, and have a good book to look in, and one I recommend is "C++ primer" or something like that, by "prata".
pointers are devilish, but vectors aren't that bad, and classes are quite easy once you figure them out

HOT TIP FOR THE ASSIGNMENT!
Start with the most basic stuff.. make an empty program that work!
then, add ONE thing at the time, figure out which ones doesn't need anything else first, and build it step by step!
never start coding something from the top, like writing a forum post ^^

[quote name='Issac' post='1761696' date='Feb 8 2009, 02:43 PM']wow, that was quite a painfully written assignment... our assignments were written less formal.
but really, that assignment isn't too hard if you strip all the bull shit text, and have a good book to look in, and one I recommend is "C++ primer" or something like that, by "prata".
pointers are devilish, but vectors aren't that bad, and classes are quite easy once you figure them out [/quote]

Thanks, I'll give that book a look

if you have any special question, just ask away...
I'm doing a project on soft body physics simulation, written in openGL (with c++) with a few friends.. so I have some c++ fresh in memory ^^

Wooop third year university!

I bet you are already doing this, but have you planned out what you are going to do on paper first? I'm just starting in c++ and that was something the teacher was emphasizing so that you don't get confused in the long run.

OneUp: That's one great advice, and our teachers have always told us to do that too...
Doesn't have to be code, just write down the basics of what's most important for it to run

Continue learning, then you can be my romhacking bitch!

Try not to worry too much about what your parents think about switching subjects. At the end of the day I think they'd rather you were sucessful in a field you enjoy, sure they may not be pleased in the beginning but it's not like you're leaving college altogether, sometimes a transfer is a brilliant idea. Moods are strange things, they can affect your performance and even if you get a job in computing you may find your disliking of it affects how you do.

About this semester; it's only Febuary, you've only been back for a few weeks so you're still adjusting to second term and being away from home again is probably wreaking havoc too.

But if you make up your mind that you definitely want to switch, and you're sure which subject to go to, do it.
Can you sit in on lectures from other classes to get a feel for what they're like? Is it specifically C++ you hate, or programming in general? Also, what's your lecturer like? If your teacher's rubbish then you can't blame yourself for finding it difficult.

As for this assignment, from personal experience if you're completely, utterly and totally stuck then it's sometimes a good idea to forget the assignment for now. Go off an follow a detailed tutorial or textbook instead about the general topic (or re-learn the language from the ground up if you're totally lost). You'll get it done a lot quicker coming back to the assignment after taking time out to re-cover the topic than if you keep struggling with it for a few days.

WTF, that assignment is confusing and boring!
believe me, there are lots of exciting stuff you can do with programming (eg. coding games )
learning C++ is good cause you'll learn all the basics of object-oriented programming and more, the kind of stuff you'll need in every other language!

either way, if you really don't enjoy this, you'll have to get your parents to understand that this isn't for you.
If you don't like what you're doing, you'll probably end up failing because you lost interest or motivation.
Now if you explain that to your parents, I'm sure they'll understand and want you to do something you do appreciate instead.

Some thoughts although the standard disclaimer that I neither know a great deal about c? or have studied computers for any other reason than I wanted to on my own time scale.

I have however seen many people in similar positions and this is what I observed.

Money: I have no doubt at all that you can earn the silly money via computers, it is however unrighteously hard to do nowadays. If you have learned something then it is not money wasted.
On the other hand if you truly do not want to do it then it is an awful lot of money and more importantly time to essentially be wasting especially when you have not really earned any yet.

Parents: I saw so many people do things for their parents (or what they perceived their parents wanted) and it never worked out. Truly it was ahead of laziness, stupidity and partying as a cause of failure.

The course: I hate health and safety and just behind that comes business management. The thing was it enabled me to do the other stuff (this is one of those "pay the piper" situations).
Alas while choice may be available at undergrad level it does not really appear until after (or at the very least final semester, final year). C++ may not be all that useful but it is a good building block.

The teacher: others have mentioned it, we all have bad ones (I will take the words of others on the assignment) and no doubt they make things boring and seemingly pointless.

The assignment. Regardless of what anyone wants to claim C of any form is a high level language with a lot of peculiarities, take it back to low level and do some ASM for a few days:
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA/index.html
It is my experience that assembly is not usually taught as anything other than an aid which is not all that good in my opinion. I also know that any trouble in any intellectual pursuit that I or anyone I have cared to discuss such things with has endured has been helped by bringing it back to basics.

"for the rest of my life": I have met a grand total of 6 people who knew what they wanted to do. 3 of those had this happen at 35 or thereabouts. Also as others have mentioned it is not as though computing locks you in to something.

Regarding switching: if you started on computing then there is probably something in it, have you considered electronics, robotics, something very high level in computing (I would say eschew web design in favour of website creation), AI, maths, you mentioned design so how about CAD or one of the myriad sub specialities of one of those.