Thread: Sereious Question: Best way to learn C++

Originally Posted by laserlight

You might want to refer to tabstop's post #53. Basically, you are confusing classes and objects in your terminology. You could refer to Stroustrup's C++ online glossary:

class - a user-defined type. A class can have member functions, member data, member constants, and member types. A class is the primary mechanism for representing concepts in C++.

object - (1) a contiguous region of memory holding a value of some type. (2) a named or unnamed variable of some type; an object of a type with a constructor is not considered an object before the constructor has completed and is no longer considered an object once a destructor has started executing for it. Objects can be allocated in static memory, on the stack, on on the free store.

Ahhh... see now even that helps! Sorry if I confused anyone... that certainly was not the intent.

This is another point that was never clarified anywhere I've read... In fact, this clears up a lot of the confusion for me too. I did indeed think of classes and objects as being synonymous terms.

Just a quick bump on this thread to say Thank You! to everyone who chipped into help me get my ole noggin around this objects thing.

It is very much appreciated.

I started with "Thinking in C++" this morning and, guess what... I think it's sinking in!

Again... Thanks to all who helped.

Accelerated C++ is not bad too, it moved quickly which is nice but a large, large chunk of the start of the book can almost be skipped since you are a C programmer. I think accelerated C++ and thinking in C++ are my two favorite books for C++.