C programming video tutorial

cod3b3ast said:

What did you see that made him seem like a rookie? What do you look for in a good tutorial?

Bucky is a n00b. You can find his main channel playlists here, his C++ 'tuts' are particularly painful. He's the source of wonderful treasures from video #2 for C++:

Bucky said:

[In regards to #include] Now, this is one of those things that you don't have to really know what it does in C++, you just gotta remember to put it in there every time.

Understanding preprocessor directives is key in learning C and C++.

Bucky said:

Every statement ends with a semicolon.

Except statements that have nested curly braces, like for or if statements...

Bucky said:

I'm gonna have you guys add in one more thing, kind of like this [see above] that you don't really need to know what it does but you need to add it in and that is called "using"... and then type in the word "namespace", then s-t-d, then add in my semicolon. And in case you guys are curious again, what this does it pretty much tells C++ to use all the basic, standard stuff that C++ uses.

Uhh... no, no it doesn't. Using is a keyword that handles importing of namespaces or parts of namespaces into the current namespace. Granted, teaching complete newbies about namespaces is probably not a very good idea, but saying something more accurate but still ambiguous, like "using namespace std makes it so instead of having to type std::cout, all you have to type is cout" would be great.

Bucky said:

Our two less-than signs [<<] is the insertion operator

No, it's an overloaded binary left-shift operator.

Bucky said:

The first thing that we want to do is "system", and then in the quotation marks we want to put "pause"

Yes, he just recommended using system("pause"). Need I say more?

Bucky said:

The next thing you're gonna want to do is put in "return 0", and what this pretty much does is end the main function. Since C++ is gonna run through this "go, go, go", but it's not gonna know where to end

C++ has never required return 0 at the end of main, that is implicit. Further, the return statement returns a number from the current function, it has nothing to do with ending the program.

So yeah... there's Bucky!