what doesn't this the tutorial on this website cover?

I 'm almost done with the tutorial but I just need to know if it covers everything. thx :)
Every single individual function in the libraries. They are covered in the reference section.
It also does not cover what code you may come up with by using imagination.

Try googling for pdf c++ tutorials, if you would like to read more. Also try a few of these links:
http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/cppbooks.html
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mit+programming&search_type=&aq=f

Then maybe try practicing:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/12974/
API programming is not on the tutorial. It would be too wide a subject to cover.
The tutorials don't talk about initializer lists and const member functions.
-command line arguments from main method
-ellipsis (...) parameter of a function
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Here is my answer - no pulling punches:

get yourself a fucking book and stop trying to learn C++ by pissing about with tutorials
The ellipsis part in on the reference section: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdarg/va_start/

Here is my answer - no pulling punches:

get yourself a fucking book and stop trying to learn C++ by pissing about with tutorials


Harsh, but good point. Most books do cover things like continued discussion on a particular subject. For example My C++ book contains a project called GradeBook, and it continues to expand on this subject throughout the chapters so you get an idea of how code should look and how to advance.
Additionally as a advanced learning it covers a project for a Banks ATM. Which also deals with UML as well as the C++ advancement.

Really reading tutorials will get the end result, it just requires a lot more stuffing around reading/finding different ones, and then having to deal with coming up with ideas to do and sample code. Where as a book will probably get you the end result a lot faster, because it contains all of that sample code, exercises, and projects. Hints & Tips, Bad practices etc, things tutorials don't necessarily cover.
@gcampton
let me guess your book.. C++ how to program from deitel & deitel.. what edition you have there?

i still recommend the tutorials in this website, i believe finishing the tutorial in this website will make you understand books better and faster..
6th ed. I agree, the tutorials are far simpler and easy to read. I find myself falling asleep in front of 500000 page text books a lot of the time :) But at the same time, books do have a lot more advancement on typical tutorials, so there's a lot more to gain by reading a text, than 3 different tutorials which are all telling you the same thing.
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just book marking
Actually Adobe Reader does let you bookmark the tutorial pdf file from this website.
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