Where to start to learn C++ language?

[firix]

computerquip wrote:

You claimed it was your opinion and then claimed that your opinion was "right". That's pretty ridiculous if not ironic.

I'm saying is a good book.
and
the initially is not bad.

and I still agree with

[z05DSL3A]

I think something is getting lost in translation.

[firix]

Grey Wolf wrote:

I think something is getting lost in translation.

I do not understand what you say?

[firedraco]

Intention --Translation--> Result

Intention != Result

[firix]

intention and the result is the same.

[z05DSL3A]

Getting lost in translation basically means that what you intend to say is not the same as people interpret it.

For example in the post;

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/32342/#msg174672

when I read "I think for a start it is not a good book." I understood that to mean that you do not thing that Programming Principles and Practices using C++ is a good book. I now don't think that that is what you meant.

[firix]

ok.
maybe you are right.

[Faff]

I'm learning from the C++ A Beginner’s Guide by Herbert Schildt, using Visual C++ 2010 express.
The guide is free and sponsored by VC++ , and so is vc++ :D

The guide contains 541 pages , explaining the very base of programming(only goes over code , no Interface stuffs)
At the moment I'm at page 350 and already at a level in which I can be of support to other starters ^^

The program has a auto compile(debug) function and tells if you made a coding mistake, aside from that it also helps at building programs with forms etc(but haven't got that much experiance with it) and much more.

I must say I'm quite satisfied 'bout these :)


Hope it helped ^^

[fabman]

Just curious, is "Programming Principles and Practices using C++" any better than "c++ primer"?. Or what are the main differences between those two?.
Thanks

[z05DSL3A]

fabman wrote:

... is "Programming Principles and Practices using C++" any better than "c++ primer"? ... what are the main differences between those two?

They are both good books, aimed a different readership. Programming Principles and Practices using C++ is an introduction to programming for people who has never programmed before whereas C++ primer assumes the reader has programmed in a modern block-structured language before.