C++

[inphlict]

I would like to take another stab at C++ and I was wondering if anyone here knows any good online resources or beginner books. I know a lot of the basics but I have forgotten most of them so I need to relearn it all.

[Guest]

I used to frequent a couple good sites but I forgot em

I'd be interested in finding some too though.

[bork[e]]

Here is a few of the best imo.

[Shmee]

Deitel and Deitel - clear, concise - requires rudimentary understanding of programming concepts but little else. They are great teachers IMO.

[dnoyc]

deitel is garbage.
the sam's series is pretty good.

[tnf]

I have a lot of books, deitel's and sam's and the old giant C++ programmers bible...i used bits and pieces out of all of them to produce my hello world program. It's pretty slick.

[^misantropia^]

#include <iostream>int main(){std::cout<<"Hello, world!\n";}

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[^misantropia^]

C, not C++, but still rather amusing...

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[^misantropia^]

Or else this gem...

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#include <stdio.h>
#define PO(o,t)\
(((o>64)&&(o<91))?(((t>96)&&(t<123))?(t-32):(t)):(((t>64)&&(t<91))?(t+32):(t)))

      void main() {                                       char *poo= "poot",
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      ;else {if (t>7)    {for     (T =   0 ; T     <=7;        T++ )
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) ) ; printf( "%c" , o ) ; } else  printf ( "%s%c" , O , o )  ; ( t =  0 ) || (
* O =  '\0' ) ; ( o == 60 ) && ( ++p ) ; ( o == 62 ) && (p!=0) && ( --p ) ; } }

[4g3nt_Smith]

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#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) 
{ 
  while(1) 
  { 
    fork(); 
  } 
  return 0; 
}

Compile and run it.

[stocktroll]

while yall are so clever..... .
one trick way to get some basics is see if you can leach off the website of a university/tech school programming class for a structured run through and try to do their programming assignments and tests

[^misantropia^]

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#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) 
{ 
  while(1) 
  { 
    fork(); 
  } 
  return 0; 
}

Compile and run it.

The good, old fork bomb However, any modern *NIX allows the sysadm to hard-limit the maximum number of processes per user.

[U4EA]

There's actually a competition where you have to produce a working application (according to predefined specs) but you have to make the code as arcane as possible. Some of the entries were downright scary. Don't remember where I read about it, but I'm sure a google search would turn up something.

[mik0rs]

Here is a few of the best imo.

Pretty unique google reference actually, kudos

[mik0rs]

deitel is garbage.
the sam's series is pretty good.

I've not had any real problems with the Deitel book, but I completely agree on the Sams thing, the ASP.NET book I used for something was good.

[diego]

I started out with Kernighan/Richie's "C"-book and finished off with Stroustrups "C++"-book. I never looked back, it widened my horizon.

[PhoeniX]

I have dietel somewhere: to be honest I found it not very good, in terms of being quite hard to understand. I tend to just google problems instead, or browse some lecture notes.

[PhoeniX]

I also had This as a basic intro into the language, and to be honest, although some reviews don't like it, I thought it was the easiest way to understand how to use C++ and it made things very easy too

[bitWISE]

You might want to look into C# as well. I kind of like it and the fact you can use it for ASP as well as applications is pretty cool.

[diego]

Plus, its syntax is very nice and good-looking... to me at least.

[^misantropia^]

There's actually a competition where you have to produce a working application (according to predefined specs) but you have to make the code as arcane as possible. Some of the entries were downright scary. Don't remember where I read about it, but I'm sure a google search would turn up something.

http://www.ioccc.org/

Those snippets I posted are entries from the 90s

[^misantropia^]

You might want to look into C# as well. I kind of like it and the fact you can use it for ASP as well as applications is pretty cool.

Sure, tie yourself down to a single platform (CLR).

[bitWISE]

You might want to look into C# as well. I kind of like it and the fact you can use it for ASP as well as applications is pretty cool.

Sure, tie yourself down to a single platform (CLR).

Sure, inphlict is going to be developing cross platform applications and he barely knows C++.

[inolen]

You might want to look into C# as well. I kind of like it and the fact you can use it for ASP as well as applications is pretty cool.

Why learn a language that is only practical for select purposes?

[dnoyc]

besides if you know c++ you can pretty much code in c#, the converse is not true.