Thread: Learning C or C++

Originally Posted by manasij7479

Really ?
You could use template functions, metaprogramming and the huge C++ standard library(inclusing the STL (implementations of several data structures and algorithms), threads and RTII utilities), exception handling and still have a procedural program.
Adding to that, ranged for loops, lambda functions, and the new C++11 features.
And all of the above can be used very well and naturally in procedural programming.
Based on your statement, it is easy to assume that you have not used most of the above.

Altough knowing all the above,i have not used them much. Thanks for the information

O_o

You seem to tie notions of design to a programming language.

That's not a beneficial way to approach learning or design concepts.

As a matter of interest, you aren't likely to find any modern code in any language that doesn't borrow some techniques from the "OOP" umbrella.

"Abstraction" and "Inheritance" in the form of opaque references and vanilla interfaces are ubiquitous in C API.

Certainly facilities like "Factories" have their use in virtually every language.

These are tools you learn to use in approaching the implementation of a solution to a problem.

They are not solutions in and of themselves nor are the majority of such tools isolated to a specific language.

Soma

Thank you for your infos too

You are using a linux OS, yes? (Most) Modern *nix OS's come with gcc already installed and has fairly basic and easy usage. Since you are starting with C++ (smart choice), you will need the C++ derivitive, g++. Install that using your system's package management system (debian = apt-get install gcc g++) (fedora = yum install gcc g++). The g++ compiler - Cprogramming.com <--- Here is a link on basic command line usage. As far as code::block is concerned, that is an IDE, or development environment, that is essentially the *nix alternative to VS for Win. I use code::lite, which is a lighter version of code::blocks that i prefer. Try using known-working source code from this website to get yourself comfortable with compiling code.