Linux & C++

I'm not a programmer but i have messed with Visual Basic in windows and made
some things with it but now I'm wanting to learn C++ on linux and I'm
looking for some good free resources to get me started.

re: Linux & C++

Brandon Roberts wrote:
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> I'm not a programmer but i have messed with Visual Basic in windows and[/color]
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> some things with it but now I'm wanting to learn C++ on linux and I'm
> looking for some good free resources to get me started.[/color]

Get the WROX book /Beginning Linux Programming/. I think it's red.

Download its online source, too.

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re: Linux & C++

> Get the WROX book /Beginning Linux Programming/. I think it's red.[color=blue]
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> Download its online source, too.[/color]


I started the same - with VB - and got sick of it.
Get yourself a C++ book. A lot of people here recommend "Accelerate C++",
not sure who it's by. Free resource will just send you around and around in
circles and you won't understand what's going on. You need a good decent C++
book that will teach you C++ from the bottom to the top in an appropriate
order.


From there you can move on to using C++ to write Graphical User Interface
programs in Linux. At this point that book that Philip suggested may be of
value.


-JKop

re: Linux & C++

A good book to read would be "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan &
Ritchie. Not a huge book, about 260 pages. I know its not C++ but it would
be well worth reading before reading a C++ book.

Gav

"Phlip" <phlip_cpp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Brandon Roberts wrote:
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> > I'm not a programmer but i have messed with Visual Basic in windows and[/color]
> made[color=green]
> > some things with it but now I'm wanting to learn C++ on linux and I'm
> > looking for some good free resources to get me started.[/color]
>
> Get the WROX book /Beginning Linux Programming/. I think it's red.
>
> Download its online source, too.
>
> --
> Phlip
> http://industrialxp.org/community/bi...UserInterfaces
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>
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re: Linux & C++

Gav posted:
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> A good book to read would be "The C Programming[/color]
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> & Ritchie. Not a huge book, about 260 pages. I know its[/color]
not C++ but it[color=blue]
> would be well worth reading before reading a C++ book.
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> Gav[/color]


OH GOOD GOD NO! NO! NO! NO!

C++ is a fully-fledged language, it has *it's own*
standard, it has cut all ties with C.

By learning C first you'll just develop bad habits, like
using pointers where references would be better.

I believe that Gav's attitude is that you should learn the
basics first without getting into classes, virtual
functions and the like, and that's grand, just learn the
*C++* basics.


-JKop

re: Linux & C++

JKop <NULL@NULL.NULL> wrote in news:b6bLc.5041$Z14.6333@news.indigo.ie:
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> Gav posted:
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>> A good book to read would be "The C Programming[/color]
> Language" by Kernighan[color=green]
>> & Ritchie. Not a huge book, about 260 pages. I know its[/color]
> not C++ but it[color=green]
>> would be well worth reading before reading a C++ book.
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>> Gav[/color]
>
>
> OH GOOD GOD NO! NO! NO! NO!
>
> C++ is a fully-fledged language, it has *it's own*
> standard, it has cut all ties with C.[/color]

What world are you living in?!!? C and C++ are closely related (but not
equal). It most certainly has _not_ "cut all ties with C"!

re: Linux & C++

Andre Kostur wrote:
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> JKop wrote:[/color]
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> > OH GOOD GOD NO! NO! NO! NO!
> >
> > C++ is a fully-fledged language, it has *it's own*
> > standard, it has cut all ties with C.[/color]
>
> What world are you living in?!!? C and C++ are closely related (but not
> equal). It most certainly has _not_ "cut all ties with C"![/color]

JKop, with his usual reserve, was trying to say "Entry-level C++ code is
much easier than C, and looks completely different. Read /Accelerated C++/
by Koenig to get started."

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Phlip
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