I'd like to teach myself some C++

I found this on Amazon and was wondering what else I might need to know.

 

I have books at home I can send you. pm me

 

Deitel has been making C/C++ books for years that MANY colleges use as the primer for learning C++.

I'd go with their books.

http://www.deitel.com/Books/DeitelBo...5/Default.aspx

I learned C and C++ a long time ago using their books. Too bad I never had a use for it, I've forgotten nearly all of it. But now that I'm getting into Objective-C I'm hoping to rekindle that because I actually enjoyed programming in C.

 

I can also vouch for Deitel, my school uses their books for C#. I also learned C++ here, and honestly, the first few days of learning it are the most confusing .. once you get a feel for it, everything else is cake, just gotta spend some time sitting on your ass and programming.

 

The one thing I should have mentioned before about the deitel books is that, at least with the C++ book I read, I found many errors in the book and submitted the errors for them to correct. Sometimes they responded to my requests, other times I had no idea if they were going to correct the typo, or whatever the problem was.

So if you do find something that doesn't seem right and you've gone over and over it again, you may be right and the book very well may be wrong.

The good thing is they do list their errata on their site and they provide all the exercises as downloads which comes in very handy!

 

why C++ instead of C#? If you just want to learn, I'd go with C#, it's more intuitive.

 

I'm learning it for a pet project of mine which requires C++ as opposed to C#

 

Ahh. Well, the book I keep at my desk is

C++ Programming: from problem analysis to program design. By D.S. Malik.

I find that it's really good for explaining how to do things in a simplistic way, cause, I can be kind of slow at picking up some of this stuff. You might want to look online for it.

 

Semi-colon hell

or at least that's how I felt when I first started learning it.

 

hey ken if you want i can send you a pdf copy of the C++ i used at school

this is the book

http://www.amazon.com/Ivor-Hortons-B...3460175&sr=8-1

just shoot me a pm if you want it

 

Pointer hell, not as much as C though. Good luck.

 

Fuck pointers.

 

 

this is a good book too:
http://www.amazon.com/Accelerated-C-.../dp/020170353X

I would stay away from the deital how to books -- i think they are better as a reference than as a learning guide

 

Pointers. That's what C is all about. I was in the business for 29 years, retiring last year as a Software Engineer for years. I used C++ a fair amount but we bastarized it into C-like code, not really using the strengths of the language as much as we could have. But it worked for our applications.

C# would be a good language to get under the belt, too. And Java ain't going away any time soon.

 

Hey SouthernBoy, were "old school" programmers really disliking C++ that much? How did you, or your coworkers, adapt to C++?

I'm wondering because once I get good at C++, there might be a new style of code and I might have to adapt to that. There were like 4 people in my class that are programmers but are taking college classes to learn about this "new" C++ and the style of OOP.