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Any recommendation on a C++ book for newbies? I am in college for computer programming but have not started any of those classes yet (still getting pre-rec's outta the way). Id like to get ahead of the game and start trying to code some things. Any help would be aprreciated. Anykind of development software reccomendations would be nice too, thanks in advance!
 
Humus said:
There's a book called something like "C++ in 21 days" or similar, it's pretty good.
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yeah I have the swedish version its great but somethings they dont explain really so I could understand. I would love to have a book that could explain all the basic commands what they do in the simplest language so every idiot could understand like me :D
Like a dictonary but with program codes that would be nice to just look up a command and see what it does and how it works
 
I was thinking about that book. I saw it at books a million. It says 21 days but its the size of a dictionary!
 
"Teach Yourself C++ in 21 days" by Jesse Liberty has been very helpful to me. I think he's one of the easiest-to-understand authors for this sort of topic. Plus I found the 2nd edition of the book on Ebay for <$8 shipped. :) Hard to beat that!
 
I have "the bible" and think it's a good book...But it's not one I would recommend to somebody just starting out with C++.

If there was one publisher that I found useful over the years, it would be Waite Publishing. Throughout school, I think I had about 4 of their books (C++/Perl/Java), and found them all _very_ good.

The C++ one was the best one I've ever read, as far as newbies go.

I know this doesn't have a lot to do with this topic, but if somebody were to ask me for a good starting point, I would highly recommend them go down the Java route.

When I was in college, it was all C++....and midway through, it then became Java. My first year post-college was all C/C++, and the last 1+ year has been exclusively Java...I can't tell you how impressed I've been with the language. The performance issues that have clouded Java throughout the years have really come full circle, and coding in Java _really_ does make use of Object Oriented principles.

It's an easier language to master, and there are so many similarities to C++, that I feel it to be a better stepping stone to C++. Plus, Java now has support for both OpenGL and D3D.
 
See if you can get with a few of the profs at your uni and ask them what to get--that way, you get ahead and get brownie points at the same time!
 
I have completed only one year of a computer science degree. I bought teach yourself C++ in 21 days a fair while ago and was a bit sceptical that it would be a good book (mainly because of the name). Before getting the book I only knew Java (that we done at uni) and c (because I had learnt it myself). I got this book so that I could start C++ at some time during the summer break (November to March). I found it to be really good. If you know c you can probably skip through about the first 6 days or so, but I found most of the stuff after that to be very useful. You may need to get another book later, but it seems like a very good book to have when you are first starting C++.
Speaking of later, Herbert Schildt's books are excellent. I had the C complete reference and later got the C++ complete reference. If you want to know how to do virtually anything with any of the standard libraries you just look it up and there's an excellent explanation and usually even an example. I love these books.
 
Warcraft III said:
Herbert Schildt's books are excellent.
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I agree! I learned C++ with "C++ From the ground up".
Since I didn't know anything about C at the time, it was a very good choice for me because it focused on OOP, but included all that stuff on C that you'll ever need ( printf, file handling).

On the other hand, "Teach yourself C++" was part of my classes bibliography, and we could only use those in exams :(
 
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