Newbie Questions!

[effizy]

I am new to C++ or any form of programming language. Would appreciate any tips on:
- approaching problems
- techniques on writing codes
- rule of thumb for writing codes
- fixing errors
- how to define and use(call) functions
- loop
- array
- float, double
- error messages.
Basically, any general info on what i should learn to master as i begin my journey into the programming world. Don't mind a tutor if possible.

Thank-you all.
Effizy

[attaboy]

Read (the manual eg :-P), Think, Write ;-)

First you should read a book on C++ (or the tutorial on here) to teach you basic cplusplus skills.
After you understand basic concepts, start a (possibly not too hard) project... When you have any problems: first: Google is your friend (I tell you she knows almost everything... Just gotta know how to search), If you do not have any success on any search engine (and you're about to throw your computer out of the window (which of course I DO NOT recommend)) you can post your problem on forums...

You don't need any Tutor ;-)... Just some common sense and patience....

After you mastered basic programming and you're about to start you're journey in the real world... Download an open source project (of a specific area of programming that you prefer) and start analyzing...

If you have any further questions... You could write me an email ;-) [e-mail]

Good luck

[effizy]

Thank-you attaboy and excuse my duplicate post error.

Effizy.

Anymore suggestions will be great, real-world experiences direct from the source maybe. Thanks.

[attaboy]

The way I did it:
- learned assembly (linkers, stacks, assemblers, (basically anything about the computer))
- learned C
- learned C++
- From this I was able to learn pretty much any programming language I wanted in a very short time (such as PHP, Perl etc etc)

I really had a good experience with this way of learning (though it is really frustrating at times)... Teaches you a lot about efficiency, your computer, the OS's etc.... C is basically the starting point of C++...

As books I can recommend the Programmers Guide ones (effective C++, and C++ the programming language).

Note: It is not at all necessary to start your journey from way low level... It just gives you a neat insight behind the scenes of c++... Starting with C (at least) is what I can recommend (from my own and friends experiences)...