your current project?

[bboy212]

What are you working on right now? I'm learning SDL.

[sasanet]

nice question :D

learning on how to organize multiple headers and cpp files in project.
one before last chapter :D

[ascii]

probably should be moved to lounge?

[ultifinitus]

Probably, no worries though =)

I'm:
-making a custom threadpool
-fixing my last bug on my iPhone app
-installing ubuntu on my second laptop for some poll() usage
-making my permutation function
-augmenting my blacklist
-starting two other iPhone projects
-learning java
-adding features to my remote admin tool
-planning the heck out of my life and getting a menial job =]

[lnk2019]

Working on a Windows applications G.U.I. using (the bane of my existence) the M.F.C.

[Stupebrett]

Learning about classes at the moment, and are thinking of starting to learn SFML in a few days.

[bboy212]

i looked at both sdl and sfml and sdl looks better.

[z05DSL3A]

I'm starting to look at iOS development (no specific project yet) and I am planning a set of projects around a home-brew 3D laser scanner.

[ascii]

well openGL is better than both, so it doesnt matter does it ;)

[Computergeek01]

@ ascii: SFML is built on top of OpenGL, so calling OpenGL "better" is a little strange.

As for me I can't seem to stay focused on a project for more then a week, and even then more then half my ideas get boring after a day or so.

[TheNoobie]

I've been reading Sam's C++ in 21 Days and right now just taking a break! ;) I've went through 1-2 chapters per day and they're getting to be 30-45 pages long full of code and my brains beginning to hurt. lol

[packetpirate]

Learning about operator overloading, exception handling, and recursion in class, though my teacher doesn't actually know C++, so he's no help. He literally just reads word-for-word presentation slides with content taken directly from the book. When asked about why something works, he'll just shrug or try to BS his way through the slides. And when asked for help with an error, he'll hover over you with un-insightful comments like "It shouldn't be doing that... I don't know why it's doing that."

I'm also working on a program that started off as something for myself and my friends, but I'm going to turn it in as my final project in my class. It's a tool to keep track of important information while playing Dungeons & Dragons.

[D80DSL3A]

I'm getting deeper into the STL . Currently cooking up problems for which a map seems useful and then solving them.

I'm also working on a program to evaluate an arithmetic expression entered as a string.
It can evaluate simple expressions now like "4*2-3^2*4+10" (where the '^' is for exponentiation)
Including the use of parentheses to group terms is proving to be a challenge, but I'm getting there.

Fun Fun Fun!

[ascii]

haha thenoobie try ivor hortons visual c++ books. chapters average about 60-100 pages and the book is 1300 pages long :)

[packetpirate]

TheNoobie, stop reading that book immediately. It will fill your head with nonsense. Get the C++ Primer or something. Anything that promises to teach you a programming language in "21 days" or "in 10 minutes per day" is crap and should be burned.

[TheNoobie]

I've said this so many times, I wish you could have signatures on these forums to save me the time. There are NO books out there that teach C++ that take longer than 30 days to read if you commit yourself to reading it every day. This book is titled "in 21 days" because there are 21 chapters and you are supposed to read 1 chapter per day.

At the very beginning of the book it explains that you can't fully understand C++ in 21 days, or even 21 years, but it will give you a solid understanding of the fundamentals by the time you're done with it. I am on day 10 and I have a pretty solid understanding of classes, structures, pointers, references, functions, polymorphism, typedefs and I could go on for quite a while trust me.

I really have no problem with people criticizing (constructively) any C++ learning material, but please don't judge a book by it's title. Furthermore, C++ Primer is 1,237 pages long while my book is 937 pages long - so it really isn't a huge difference. I plan on reading 2-3 more books after this to dive deeper into programming, but this books is doing a great job at teaching me the fundamentals.

I can already code pretty big and dynamic programs with what I've learned from this book. Also helps that I have a preexisting knowledge of programming (though not large, it's something.) Regardless, if anyone has actually READ this book and has an opinion on whether it's worth continuing or not then please let me know. Also, if you want to suggest any books for me to read in the future then I'll keep that in mind (I think my next book is going to be Stroustrup's C++ book.)

[sasanet]

I've been reading that book too.
until chapter 10 I think then I just throw it away like that:

try {
       C++ in 21 days;
       throw "book suck";
}
catch (...) {
       exit (21);
}

that book is not to learn C++,
it is something like short story to get an poor owerview of language :/

sorry but that is what I think :peace

[TheNoobie]

So what would you suggest to replace is sasanet?

[sasanet]

Bjarne Stroustrup "C++ Progaming lanuguage" is No 1
http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/

Bjarne Stroustrup designed and implemented the C++ programming language.