Hi,
I am a newbie and never programmed ever before.
I did checked the books recommendations mentioned here and here.
a relative of mine passed away since a while, and his family just give his library to my mother.
My mother knows that I like computers and internet, so she thought these books will be in a good use for me.
When I checked these books, I found it from mid nineties till 2001.
Most of them about C++, but it is written Visual C++.
It is about 40 or 50 books that has visual C++ in the title (I have that impression that this man was a collector or something), and most of the books have several pages like 900+ or 1300+ etc...
Also most publishers no longer exists, I mean when I checked the internet and amazon I found publishers like Que no longer exist.
Most of the books from Que, Wrox, SAMs.
So my question is ... long-story-short, can I study from these books?
If it is YES, then it will be a huge saving, plus that I in love with any old book, I smell its papers and like its touch (yes I know, most of the people who know me thinking that I am crazy about books), so reading these old books will be a pleasure for me.
But I do not know if it is right or wrong to do so, especially that I never programmed before but just above average user for computers and internet (of course my mother things I am the next bill gates).
When I opened the books, I've found most of them talking about programming for windows.
So please recommend for what I should do.
So please if someone may be patience with me and till the differences between C++ and Visual C++, that would be awesome.
Another issue, is that I will study from books, if these books are old then I will have to buy new current books, which will cost a lot because I hate electronic books.
Please advise.
Note: I've a valid visual studio enterprise 2017 license from my college, but never used it ever before, just got it with an education key for windows 10 from college as well. I am just using the windows key.
