vern wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm a budding C/C++ coder and have signed
> up for a class for beginning C/C++ students.
> All is fine till I get to "Code Warrior" and
> being of little means, I can only afford to get
> the "starters version" in Windoze verses the
> "real version" for Linux that's $49 vs. $90 so
> I guess I will take a course in Windoze C++. I
> hope the lessons learned will apply to "Code
> Crusader" or KDevelop which I already have. Does
> anyone know of any classes on the Web for Linux??
> Is there an "open source University" yet??
> vern
Well, any good university will have UNIX programming courses. I'm
taking a class at a community college write now in advanced C++
(unfortunately, I knew all of it before I got into the class, so it was
a bit of a waste), and as for cost, well, I'm not even a senior in high
school yet and I have both time and money to take these courses.
Also, I don't recommend buying an IDE... You could have gotten the
Borland IDE for free, which used to be the best (until Microsoft made it
near impossible to get anything useful done in Windows without VC++).
And Linux of course has many good ones (KDevelop if you're a KDE
fanatic, CodeCommander if you're a GNOME lover, and the command line if
you're just plain smart ~,^ ). KDevelop I believe is the best
graphical IDE I've seen so far (VC++ has some really niftified features,
but I believe the latest KDevelop has most/all of them). CodeCommander
is a pleasure to use, although its not quite up to par (yet), and the
command-line is more integrated than anything else, since you can use
ANY tell to help you get your work done, i.e. you're whole system is
integrated to help get development done. But that's just an opinion...
(what can I say, I was taught to program on DOS with Turbo C++ and
DJGPP by a UofM UNIX sys admin major when I was 12, the command line's
power pulses thru my veins!!)
OK, minus all the bull, check out the O'Reilly books. They are the
best. Period. Anything from learning something, to mastering to, to
specific uses, to references, O'Reilly has a book for it, and I will
guarantee it will be one of the best. I haven't read an O'Reilly C++
book, but I have glanced thru them, and they surely beat everything
I have on my bookshelf. One of these I might just pick one up if I ever
find a need for more C++ stuff (which I doubt I will, unfortunately).
Yadda yadda yadda, there I go babbling on for two-hundred pages for
somthing relatively simple... ::sigh::
Sean Middleditch
