Questions and suggestions

[teratosis]

Hey everyone,

What I'd like to do..

Learn C++.

Me = Beginner with a small bit of breaking code.:) But I want to understand it now so I don't break it haha.

Please give me a suggestion for a program that has a editor/compiler built in. I have been tinkering with code using Eclipse on Debian. Is that a decent program?

Also I would like to be comfortable with manually compiling.....

I am more comfortable with the "command line" using Debian way more than Windows. So could I eventually compile code that would work on Windows and Mac using Debian? I don't understand those rules as far as source code goes.

Having trouble finding a good book on C++ that doesn't skip too much beginner information. Any suggestions there would be appreciated too.

Thank you.

[therockon7throw]

C++ code are platform dependent, which means you have to compile your code on target platform itself in order to get an executable file to be directly run on that platform.

If you compile/build your code on Unix, it works only on Unix, the same thing is true for other OS.

If you are comfortable with command line, you do not need eclipse, use instead an editor, i.e. vi, gedit, emacs.

How to compile/make/build your code see GCC user manuel.

Start with any free e-book for a first start, the key is not a book, but coding/practicing, you may find any topic online...

[teratosis]

Thanks for clarifying.