Learning to write in C++

[Joecastor]

Hello, i'm currently 17 years old and I am starting to look at university. I am really interested in programming courses and video games courses. I have recently been doing a lot of programming in c# in game engines such as Unity 5. But the course I am looking at is more software engineering and is all written in c++. I have been looking all over the internet for some where to learn C++ does anyone know of any? As well as what is best to write it in.. Visual C++ or Eclipse?

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Thanks!
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[LB]

C++ courses taught in college are notoriously bad (I have experienced it myself) because the professors often times had learned C++ before it was standardized and have neglected to keep up to date on modern C++. If you ask your professor "which standard of C++ are you most familiar with" and they don't know what you mean, that's a bad sign.

If you want to learn C++, get a good book:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/388282/1959975

Then just remember to do whatever pleases the professor if you decide to take the course.

[48T7M4Gy]

www.coursera.org/course/cplusplus4c might be worth a look at.

There are probably other (free) MOOCs around doing the same, MIT Stanford etc?

[48T7M4Gy]

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-096-introduction-to-c-january-iap-2011/

[Joecastor]

Thanks guys!