Beginning C++

[Deathcry]

Originally Posted by Rohit

Hello
I think "c++ programming for Dummies" is good book to learn c++,you can find some tutorial from this site cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ .

on my c++ programming for dummies book the compiler wasn't fluent with the language and i had to find another online. horrible book in general in my opinion

[MeTh0Dz]

The compiler wasn't fluent with the language, what the hell does that mean?

[Xav]

I think it didn't understand it's own language.

[MeTh0Dz]

Lol yeah, for some reason I don't think it was the compiler....

[dargueta]

It might have been. There are some extensions added by compiler writers that aren't language-standard. For example, say I created a C++ compiler and decided to add the non-standard keyword __class_singleton, which would force the specified class to become a singleton (i.e. only one instance possible). If you tried compiling the code on a Microsoft compiler, it'd gag and spit out an error message. If the book was written for Microsoft compilers, but he used a different compiler (or a different version), it wouldn't work.

[MeTh0Dz]

Yeah but the guy was reading C++ for dummies. And in the beginning of that book at he would have been using was simple stuff such as cin, cout, different variable types, stuff like that. I'm pretty sure that no one is going to design a compiler that doesn't support stuff like that.

[PlayaSkater]

Thanks everyone for your replies. I really appreciate them, but, sadly, I've decided not to learn C++ and, instead, move onto C# which is simpler, and plus I have someone that can (physically) teach me how it functions with ASP.NET since that is what I plan on learning next.



And those of you who were discussing the types of books. I do, in fact, have a C++ book that I completely forgot about because... I never thought I'd need it. It's called How to Program C++ by Deitel Deitel.

[Shadowtech]

get a good book... it should help you get started i'm new at it too... good luck