On Saturday 29 December 2001 11:53 am, wsa wrote: > As others have said stear clear of OS specific topics... > Even if you want to start using OS specific stuff later on i think it's > best to start out with real C++. > In my opinion you should even avoid 'plain' C because you'll end up > learning things you can ditch in C++ cause there are more effecient and > new ways of doing things in ++. > And make very sure whatever book you get really really restricts to C++... > cause there's a shitload of them that sneak in non C++ stuff like the > dreaded conio
Exactly. I remember seeing some huge book with an ambitious name like "C++ Bible" or "C++ Black Book" or something. Nothing on the cover said that the book was platform or compiler-specific. I opened it, and it had all these ugly Windows system calls (messages) throughout. This stuff wasn't even put into its own chapter! It was everywhere! To the OP: If you are intersted in doing applications programming some day, I suggest you learn the C part of *C++* first. YMMV. Other intersting languages may include: Perl, Bash, Python, Lisp, Scheme, FORTRAN, Haskell, O'Caml, SML, Prolog, Java (for some people, but not for me). Alec P.S. A real BOFH would say "man cc" :) > Cheers, > Willem > > >You'll find loads of recommendations and other info on the web and on the > >C/C++ newsgroups. > > > >A word of advice: ignore the whole OS issue when buying general C/C++ > >books or looking at stuff on the web. The best stuff is not system > >specific as the language is not, and if you restrict yourself to > >Linux-specific books you are unnecessarily limiting yourself. If you want > >to use Linux specific extensions/libraries, that is another matter. > > > > Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.
