how to do next?

[hzy_104]

Hello everyone!
below are my problems:

I have learn programming for more than 1 year,at the beginning I learn
C, then move to C++.But till now i even don't kown what can i do with
the Standard C++. I have ever try to learn visual c++,but some friend
of mine told me it's not a good idea for beginers to learn programming
under visual interface.

Now, what i can do are just some easy problem under console mode.
May be i must try SDK next, or spend my time to learn standard C++
again(focus on learning more standard functions,but i don't think it's
a
good way).don't break my confidence again. i am really love c++.

Give me your tips!
Sorry for my poor English!
Thanks beforehand!

share your feeling with me!

E-Mail :hz*****@yahoo.com

[John Carson]

"hzy_104" <hz*****@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hello everyone!
below are my problems:

I have learn programming for more than 1 year,at the beginning I learn
C, then move to C++.But till now i even don't kown what can i do with
the Standard C++. I have ever try to learn visual c++,but some friend
of mine told me it's not a good idea for beginers to learn programming
under visual interface.
You can write console applications in VC++ and there is nothing particularly
"visual" about it. You just write code, compile it and run it. Ignore your
friend. A purely command line interface is a pain in the neck for beginning
programmers (in fact for all programmers).
Now, what i can do are just some easy problem under console mode.
May be i must try SDK next, or spend my time to learn standard C++
again(focus on learning more standard functions,but i don't think it's
a
good way).don't break my confidence again. i am really love c++.

Learn standard C++. Start with easy problems in console mode and then move
on to difficult problems in console mode. Then move on to GUI programming.
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[Dietmar Kuehl]

hz*****@yahoo.com (hzy_104) wrote:

Now, what i can do are just some easy problem under console mode.
May be i must try SDK next, or spend my time to learn standard C++
again(focus on learning more standard functions,but i don't think it's
a good way).don't break my confidence again. i am really love c++.

You didn't state what you overall goal is in learning to program in the
first place. Possibly, you just have fun programming and there is no
goal there, yet. If this is the case, you might want to consider working
on the stuff which operates behind the scenes: not everybody has to
become a GUI programmer. Actually, IMO the interesting problems don't
really involve a GUI. There may be programs which effectively provide a
GUI to give easier access to the underlying machinery.

Here are a few things you might want to look into:
- Boost (<http://www.boost.org/>) provides library components for loads
of stuff which mostly rely only on standard C++ features. They always
look for volunteers.
- Standard C++ is well suited to implement the algorithms from all
those funny books on algorithms and data structures in an efficient
and generic fashion.
- If you are interested in some business topic, you might want to look
into the problems they got in the respective business domain and
address them with programs.

Actually, I made good progress when I learned C++ by eventually starting
to answer questions asked in one of the C++ newsgroups. Also, in the
newsgroups quite a few interesting problems are surfacing.
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