Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: NN Software in C++
From: t_minor@nni.com ()
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In article <57jjga$dpp$1@itu3.sun.ac.za>, From Gregor Schmitz 
<gschmitz@ing.sun.ac.za>, the following was written:
> 
> I have read the book by masters and I agree that the book is very good
  > but that the code is not very object orientated. I do not have the 
> book by Rao & Rao . Do you find that the C++ code in it is better and 
> more flexible than that of Masters?> ?

PMFJI, but I am new to neural networks.  I have been tasked to learn and
implement ANNs on marketing data.  The first thing I am doing, is
getting books on ANNs and GAs, and reading up on the nn newsgroups.  I
haven't enough experience to chime in on ANNs. but ...

Being an OO programmer and needing to implement ANNs in standard C++ (to
compile on wintel and UNIX), I found a book called "Object-Oriented
Neural Networks in C++", Joey Rogers, (c) 1997 Academic Press, Inc., 
ISBN: 0-12-593115-8.  Try url http://www.apnet.com

I haven't gotten too far, but I have compiled some code provided on
diskette, with Watcom C++, i.e., Optima++.  This was done with only a
change to a function that was declared virtual.  Watcom didn't like
that.

The code is generally OO, There are classes, like link and node, there
are inheritance (is-a), then spec out specific types of nodes.   Also,
he implements a linked list as a class.  He stays away from templates on
the assumption that not all people will be able to compile on C++
compilers that support <templates>.  

I think it is at least worth looking into.  I found my copy at a Borders
bookstore.  It was not available at a Barnes and Noble.


Kindest regards,

Tom Minor

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