Thread: Current Book?

Programming Principals by Stroustrup, now on page 323. This is a book that I can not group with the O’Reilly books. I read P.P. today, it is really good but the reading was not as energetic as the O’Reilly option until a couple hours in, I finally made some adjustments and was able to get on track. At this point in the book, I have learned quite interesting things but I am not able to start a serious program quite yet. It seems that c++ is an up hill battle but I now have a few more ideas to go on in chapter 9.

I would say that this book is not entirely friendly with Linux, but maybe that is because I am using Ubuntu which has the Gnome desktop widgets. I am basically forced to read this whole book just like I am forced to play an instrument, but than one day you realize that it all sounds good and I can actually enjoy this instead of just going through the motions. Never surrender 3.

I have learned about another new addition to c++, called the enum class. It should be useful and I would like to use it, so I will keep it in mind when I decide on what I want, although doesn't Linux have a tool for everything already? It actually all comes down to having the power to do something and than waiting until lightning strikes. This is definitely a book for at home, and after chapter 7 things are easier instead of more difficult. I wondered if I was going to be able to keep reading it, and than the pace just slackened to a marching pace. If I would have known that than I would not have taken a week off from this book.

What Elysia said. You seem way too concerned about your Linux thing. You're at the basics of C++ - all you learn at this step is platform independent. And while *some* introductory books refer to Windows programming in the last one or two chapters, Stroustrup most certainly doesn't, because he's into the language, his language, not into any platform specific library oder toolkit.

However, reading clever books is not enough though. You're not gonna learn German, or French, or Spanish, by only reading tutorial books. You need practice. Forget about serious programs for a while. Think of programs you'd like to do and do them with all the knowledge you have so far. It doesn't matter if they aren't half as secure as a real world application. It doesn't matter if they are written in poor style. What matters is the practice you gain.

Go on and write programs, as many as you can think of. Show your source codes in the forum and take all the input you get from the great guys here. Don't take criticism as a bully, but as a chance to improve. That way you will find you'll progress very quickly.

Everything is okay, I have gcc and the Qt creator IDE. I see that Qt creator lets you open an ordinary C or C++ project, which is not the same as a Qt C or a Qt C++ project. I have heard about clang, it is the BSD c/c++ compiler. The Qt Creator does give you the option of which compiler that you want to use to compile the source code, so I actually could use either gcc or else clang, but I only have gcc installed at the moment. I was just joking about everything but it is slightly frustrating that I have to wait a few more weeks in order to get enough information gathered about the language definition before I start to write a program. It's not that big of a deal though.