Steve, I'd reinforce John and Adrien's comments about diving right in. I originally learned C somewhere in the late 1980's from Kernigan and Ritchie's book and used the language for a couple of years. After that I moved on to Matlab and Mathematica for most of my calculation needs (employed by the government who paid insitutional licence fees) as they became available. Have never formally learned C++ (and it shows) but I did use a couple of other Object Oriented languages in between, so C++ generally becomes intelligible fairly quickly. There are a lot of online reources for C++ and quite a few programming forums where you can seek advice as well.
The greatest difficulty I have experienced is in tracking program flow and locating definitions with complex include heirarchies, which was why I mentioned Sourcetrail previously. I won't say I am ever going to be an expert C++ coder, but I can now get by to the extent necessary to string a few library calls together. When I come across C++ features I don't understand, I just read around the topic. Spending some time learning C++ properly is on the priority list for me and probably a good idea before writing new code. When I get desperate, I just call my son who is a professional developer of business software and games platforms. David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
