Recommended projects?

[Cymos]

Hey.

I am still really new to C++, but I fully understand how "realistic" I need to be with my goals and targets - and especially how optimistic I should be with planning projects.

So far, I have downloaded Dev-C++ and have learnt my way around the IDE and am reading through the C++ tutorial (from CPlusPlus.com). I don't think I have learnt everything off heart and I'm now trying to think of relevant projects I can be working on to keep learning how things work.

Obviously I will be following the tutorial for now and editing whatever is thrown at me. I am doing well with it so far, and realising what is being done wrong, and working with the compiling errors (and not working against them!) ;)

Is writing a calculator a good project to get started on after the Tutorial.pdf? And then (a few weeks later) to have a go at a Roman Numeral calculator?

And if those are good examples, does anyone have any suggestions for after this (or to replace my suggestions)?

What did you start out with?? (back in the day....!)

Thanks for reading and look forward to getting to know some of you.
Nathan

[Null]

Is writing a calculator a good project to get started on after the Tutorial.pdf? And then (a few weeks later) to have a go at a Roman Numeral calculator?

Yes.

You can try these exercises too: http://cplusplus.com/forum/articles/12974/

[zb0S216C]

I would go for the phone book project. The phone book project involves:

- Iteration
- Structures
- Containers such as vector
- I/O
- Comparison

I would second the calculator project though :)

_Wazzak

[jeffsg605]

I started learning about input file reading/output file writing after arrays and such. I found it helped me to get a better grasp on previous concepts like using loops effectively because I had to use them between the file and the program.

Try writing a program that stores arrays in a .txt file and another program or function that reads them in. Like output a table of sine values and read them into a different array.