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    Right. What material are you using to learn C++?
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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    C++ Programming from problem analysis to program design 5th edition by D.S. Malik

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    Quote Originally Posted by chickenlittle
    C++ Programming from problem analysis to program design 5th edition by D.S. Malik
    Eh, that book introduces std::vector in chapter 10, and pointers in chapter 14. Maybe you need to go through the material more carefully, without skipping chapters. To get this right, you need to be familiar with the idea that user defined classes such as std::vector<int> can behave like built-in types like int, e.g., they can be copied. Then you need to be familiar with defining classes, including implementing the copy constructor, copy assignment operator and destructor.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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