If this can help or as info, take a look at the 'C/C++ Users
Journal',
www.cuj.com
Eric
Sean Middleditch wrote:
>
> 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
