C++ Without Fear, where to go now?

[eidge]

I'm finishing C++ Without Fear.

I've went through many different posts and articles to try and find the next logical step from here.

The problem is I can't really understand what level of skill I have right now.

So what do you guys advise me to read next?

I was looking into Exceptional C++, but maybe that's to advanced for me..

Thank's,
Hugo Ribeira

[GbX36Up4]

Practice? Make fun little apps? Join a team? Get a job with programming? It really depends on how good you are. Here is my main suggestion though, Learn what you don't know :D

[xephon]

C++ Primer. I'd say that's THE book about C++ you must have.

Plus tons of programming.

That's the way to proceed. Coding is king man.

[eidge]

Thank's for the anwsers, any ideas on Exceptional C++?

[GbX36Up4]

Is that a book? If it is you can still check it out, if it is too advanced than you can just stop reading it until a later time when you are up to that level.

[eidge]

It is indeed a book, there are some good reviews on it, but if anyone has had personnal experience with it, i'd rather hear it...

[GbX36Up4]

Oh, you mean whether or not it is a good book as well. The only book I have read is "C++ from the ground up".

[zb0S216C]

Once you have a solid foundation of the basics, maybe you could start to lean towards a specific area of study such as artificial intelligence, physics, graphics, hardware, networking, etc. As for reading material, I've only read (still reading) the C++ Standard, and Programming Principles and Practice Using C++. The C++ Standard tells you more or less everything about the C++ language. The Programming Principles and Practice Using C++ book was written by the C++ creator himself.

_Wazzak

[eidge]

So let's say I'm inclinning in stepping forward to networking, any advices?

[zb0S216C]

You could look for C++ networking books, and start to develop simple programs that use sockets. I'll post a few links for you to look at.

References:
http://rites.uic.edu/~solworth/sockets.pdf
http://www.alhem.net/Sockets/
http://www.pcs.cnu.edu/~dgame/sockets/socketsC++/sockets.html


_Wazzak

[eidge]

Thanks for the help. Don't be to happy though, because as soon as I finish "C++ Without Fear" I'll be here to haunt you with more pathetic questions and problems on sockets ;)