newbie

[cribtolearn]

thanks a lot guys............forum's really helpin me a lot!!

[Xav]

You're welcome.

[MeTh0Dz]

Someone may have said this before me, but what I did to learn was just pick out projects that had concepts in them that I didn't understand. Begin the project and do as much as I could, then when I was stuck I would just look up how to do what I needed to do, and then implement it in my own way. This was all of course after I had read a basic C++ book, read some other basic tutorials, etc.

*Johnnie's Winsock Tutorial is also a good way to go if you want to get into network programming LINK ----- Johnnie's Winsock Tutorial

*Reading up on threading could also be useful as you need to be able to use threads if you want to emulate multi-tasking in your programs

*I would also suggest looking at source code and programs on the internet, and then just trying to make them better

*And there is some good Win32Api tutorials out there if you want to get into that kind of stuff

Hope some of that helps

[RavenE]

There are many good website for examples, even downloadable zip files full of em!

[Xav]

But most of them contain malware.

[MeTh0Dz]

Not really. When you download tutorial type stuff from the net the source and text files are almost always included in the zip so it wouldn't even matter if it has malware. Just don't run the executables. You'll be fine getting that type of stuff from the internet.

[Xav]

Hmm - but all the same, I'm never comfortable downloading ZIP files from the net, as I don't know what they contain. Maybe I'm too careful, but the internet's a dangerous place.

[MeTh0Dz]

Why would it matter if you download zip files or not? It's not like they can self execute or anything in them can. I really don't see what the reasoning would be to not download zip files especially when you are concerned about malicious files.

[Xav]

ZIP files are more dangerous, as you can't tell what sort of files are inside them.

[MeTh0Dz]

Dude it doesn't matter what's inside of them. They can't execute until you extract them and execute them, or until you execute them and them inside the winzip environment. All you have to do is open up winzip look at the files, and then only open the ones that aren't executables, batches, .coms, etc. Are you sure that you understand how a zipfile works?