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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.
Jul 22 '05 #1
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Brandon Roberts wrote:
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.


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

Download its online source, too.

--
Phlip
http://industrialxp.org/community/bi...UserInterfaces

Jul 22 '05 #2
> Get the WROX book /Beginning Linux Programming/. I think it's red.

Download its online source, too.

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

Jul 22 '05 #3
Gav
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" <ph*******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Brandon Roberts wrote:
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.


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

Download its online source, too.

--
Phlip
http://industrialxp.org/community/bi...UserInterfaces

Jul 22 '05 #4
Gav posted:
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

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
Jul 22 '05 #5
JKop <NU**@NULL.NULL> wrote in news:b6*****************@news.indigo.ie:
Gav posted:
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

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.


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"!
Jul 22 '05 #6
Andre Kostur wrote:
JKop wrote:

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.


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"!


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."

--
Phlip
http://industrialxp.org/community/bi...UserInterfaces
Jul 22 '05 #7

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