The most recent announcements will be listed first.
4/1/99
Having trouble creating a new project/workspace? Don't jump off a bridge (yet). Check out the "tips" on MSVC that are linked from the course home page. Spending 10 minutes browsing there might save you hours of frustration later.
Another link you might find helpful is this one:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jonal/143/multifile.html
3/29/99
If you run the sample executable, and it closes right after you type the file name in... it probably means the program couldn't find the file. You might simply have mistyped the name. Or, the file might not be in the directory where the program looks for it. If you're not sure which directory that is, here's a reliable solution: move a copy of the file to a fixed place, and type in the full pathname each time. For example, if you're using the testdata.txt file we supplied, you might make a special subdirectory of C: called "143data." and copy the data file there. Then when the program asks you for the file name, type
C:\143data\testdata.txt