What's the best way to learne(opinion)

[iPlus]

I just wanted to hear peoples opinion on what's the best method to learning the advanced parts of c++ or just learning c++ in general please post your thoughts.

[moorecm]

Books. Read lots and lots of books.

[codekiddy]

Books. Read lots and lots of books.

+1
also practice what you read.
otherwise you'll forgot what you read.

[andywestken]

I agree that books (and good web sites) are important. But it's more that you have to work through a book-- trying out all you read, doing the exercies, really thinking about it, ... -- rather than (just) reading them.

And then you got to apply what you've learnt to solve real problems. Or rather, try to solve them. Then go back and re-read the bits you didn't quite get, and then solve the problem!

And examining good code which uses what you've learnt is also good. Not just example code, but full-on projects. As I program for a living, I get to see plenty of good (and some bad) code on a more or less daily basis. But there are open source projects whose code you can check out, if you're so minded [1].

In fact, compiling code and stepping through it with a debugger is a good way to really get code. This is one of the main ways I learn (and re-learn) information.

Andy

[1] I don't know my way round open source code well enough to make any strong suggestions. But there must be some good C++ projects on sourceforge.net, etc.

This thread might help:
"What C++ OSS project has good source code to learn from?"
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3815029/what-c-oss-project-has-good-source-code-to-learn-from

(Does anyone have any suggestions? Ideally medium sized projects which do things using standard C++ idioms, inc. plenty of STL.)