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I'm looking to start learning some C++, and having had an admittedly brief shifty round some Amazon reviews it seems that views are conflicting where the reader has either little or no programming exp, and those who have non-C style experience.
I'm a second year CS student who has studied intermediate-level Python, C and Java, plus a little PHP just for the banter. Does anyone have any recommendations into books / courses / websites that could provided some good tutorials and lessons on how to get started?
ps. I'm aware this is a web dev forum, but I figure it's the closest one to fitting.
I'm a second year CS student who has studied intermediate-level Python, C and Java, plus a little PHP just for the banter. Does anyone have any recommendations into books / courses / websites that could provided some good tutorials and lessons on how to get started?
I'm looking to start learning some C++, and having had an admittedly brief shifty round some Amazon reviews it seems that views are conflicting where the reader has either little or no programming exp, and those who have non-C style experience.
I'm a second year CS student who has studied intermediate-level Python, C and Java, plus a little PHP just for the banter. Does anyone have any recommendations into books / courses / websites that could provided some good tutorials and lessons on how to get started?
ps. I'm aware this is a web dev forum, but I figure it's the closest one to fitting.
I'm a second year CS student who has studied intermediate-level Python, C and Java, plus a little PHP just for the banter. Does anyone have any recommendations into books / courses / websites that could provided some good tutorials and lessons on how to get started?
Not a big fan of recommending books in these circumstances. Learning is a personal experience and so what style works for one isnt necessarily helpful to another. And I think thats why you find many of the amazon reviews are so contradictory.
If it were me learning C++ though. I'd just buy Bjarne Stroustrup's book and supplement it with Google.
If it were me learning C++ though. I'd just buy Bjarne Stroustrup's book and supplement it with Google.
Garin wrote:
> Not a big fan of recommending books in these circumstances.
> Learning is a personal experience and so what style works for one
> isnt necessarily helpful to another. And I think thats why you
> find many of the amazon reviews are so contradictory.
>
> If it were me learning C++ though. I'd just buy Bjarne
> Stroustrup's book and supplement it with Google.
Have you learned C first? This great language has spawned many 'sons' and 'daughters' and its structure 'class' has got to be the forerunner of OOP - it's a delight to create, but here's a recommendation of a couple that may help:
Osborne "Teach yourself C/C++" by Herbert Schildt (2 books here - C and C++ - great guy) and SAMS C++ and C++Builder4 - may be totally out-of-date now but the basics etc are there.
> Not a big fan of recommending books in these circumstances.
> Learning is a personal experience and so what style works for one
> isnt necessarily helpful to another. And I think thats why you
> find many of the amazon reviews are so contradictory.
>
> If it were me learning C++ though. I'd just buy Bjarne
> Stroustrup's book and supplement it with Google.
Have you learned C first? This great language has spawned many 'sons' and 'daughters' and its structure 'class' has got to be the forerunner of OOP - it's a delight to create, but here's a recommendation of a couple that may help:
Osborne "Teach yourself C/C++" by Herbert Schildt (2 books here - C and C++ - great guy) and SAMS C++ and C++Builder4 - may be totally out-of-date now but the basics etc are there.
Nah, OOP was around before even C existed.
Thanks folks - I'll have a look into both recommendations. I might also try learning C more thoroughly, our course got to 'malloc' before it was cruelly cut short by exam time.
If you only got to malloc(), you should probably begin by learning about free() :-p
NOW they tell me!