Help Me Find a Tutorial

[verdastelo]

Hi,

Can you help me find the tutorial, Google recommends in its C++ course (https://developers.google.com/edu/c++/next-steps )?

The link to the tutorial is: http://www.intap.net/~drw/cpp/

I've tried entering the URL in WayBackMachine. But the index page is only as far as it would take me. (http://web.archive.org/web/20120420182701/http://www.intap.net/~drw/cpp)

[Cubbi]

The page you linked to has enough errors to not want to look at something they reference (there's even a "void main"!). But if you really want to, enter "www.intap.net/~drw/cpp/index.htm" into archive.org (and go back to year 2011 or so) to see that incomplete Turbo C++ tutorial in all its glory. (he does actually say use gcc, but his first example won't compile with it because of iostream.h)

[BHX]

The tutorial here on this site: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
Learn C++: http://www.learncpp.com/

Those two alone are better than the one you linked to. For Windows there is Code::Blocks IDE that comes with the MingW compiler or MSVC++. For Linux distros it is GCC.

Code::Blocks: http://codeblocks.org/
MSVC++: https://www.visualstudio.com/

[verdastelo]

Thank you, Cubbi and BHX!

@ Cubbi: I read your biography on this website. It seems you are not enamoured of Google's C++ Style. Just wanted to share with you that my primary coursebook is Bjarne Stroustrup's Programming and Practices with C++, not Google's course.

@ BHX: I'm on Linux and use gcc and nano. I hope it'll help me develop good habits. But don't know for sure.

[TheIdeasMan]

Hi,

Try to get hold of the clang compiler from llvm, it's better than gcc in a lot of ways :+) The options for it are generally the same as g++. Hopefully you can use it with your IDE.

http://llvm.org/

Some other hopefully useful stuff:

Compiler warnings:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/183731/#msg899203

Lots of really good info here, written by Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter:
https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines.html

Good Luck !!

@BHX Good to see you are back, it's been awhile :+)

[BHX]

@verdastelo: I don't think good habits are dependent on the compiler or editor (though it does help to have an up-to-date compiler to be compatible with C++11 and C++14 [or whatever standard it will be up to for future readers]), rather I think they are dependent on who you are learning from. You can't go wrong learning from books written by Bjarne Stoustrup himself. Same with Scott Meyers and Herb Sutter.

[verdastelo]

@ TheIdeasMan: Very interesting stuff. I hope I can learn to use LLVM before the end of this year. Thank you for the Github book(?).

@ BHX: I looked at Meyers' and Shutter's books. They seem to be for advanced learners. Hope to read them in a few months' time. Thank you for the suggestions.

[TheIdeasMan]

I hope I can learn to use LLVM before the end of this year.

No worries:+) But not a lot needed to learn to use clang++. Just install it, then literally substitute clang++ instead of g++ if compiling in the shell. In your IDE, set up the build to use clang instead of gcc -shouldn't be too hard.

The clang++ compiler has some extra options compared to g++, but it is how the compiler works internally that is different. clang++ does do nicer messages. llvm does have a bunch of tools, but that is probably advanced except for the llvm-format, perhaps.

Good Luck !!