[X] My Assistant

[Locke]

lol, if you didn't see my post in the Final Fantasy 6 & 7 topic, gratz on moderator.

[gabehabe]

Oops, I did miss that

Thanks, Locke

[polymath]

Congrats on becoming a mod gabehabe!

Now you can go through and edit out all that back and forth we had about editing.

Oh, and you took the link out of your post about free sig design. Is it still free? I've been thinking about asking you about that.

This post has been edited by polymath: 5 Jul, 2008 - 11:45 AM

[gabehabe]

Thanks, poly
Yeah, it's still free
I just took it out to shrink my sig a bit...

[mensahero]

Thanks, poly
Yeah, it's still free
I just took it out to shrink my sig a bit...

I already miss those words on your signature.. lmao

Its like a series it always change and now its gone..

[gabehabe]

hehe, they'll probably be back at some point, I'm always editing and spamming all my profiles on everything.

I already spammed my twitter, too...

[GhostlyDeath]

Can't code without a compiler (with an IDE to make your life easier)

(IDEs w/ Compilers included!), all Free also

*** WINDOWS ***
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (Once a new version comes out, this link will probably die) - Very nice IDE, Use it on Windows all the time.
Code::Blocks and OK IDE, cross platform also.
Dev-C++ Very OLD IDE but it's still nice, doesn't have much features compared to newer tools but still works pretty good, if you need help getting it working on Vista you can PM me. The only thing that it doesn't seem to do is debugging.
Mingw32 Mingw32 Compiler (GCC for Windows basically)

*** LINUX ***
emacs - A classic, text editor only afaik
Code::Blocks as above (requires wxWidgets)
Anjuta - Nice clean IDE
KDevelop - OK Ide, I didn't like it that much

*** MAC ***
Code::Blocks as above

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Then if you are using GCC, the dominant way of building code is with make, using a tutorial which looks pretty nice, now only if I found it some time back when I had to figure out make for myself

[xAlanxEnglandx]

For allegro I learned from cppgameprogramming.com

Glad you put cplusplus.com on there, where i first learned and a GREAT resource and reference!

polymath

Hey dude, Ime learning c++ well but I just cannot get used to the MSDN tuturials, theres something about cplusplus.com I love, but it dont seem as complex as the MSDN online book, can cplusplus.com teach me alot about the programming language? and the main features of it?

Thanks.

[gabehabe]

*answering a question aimed at poly because I'm super cool like that*

Yeah, I learned a great deal from cplusplus.com

[polymath]

Arg...

Hey, one of the main features of cplusplus.com is that in addition to the tutorial, you have references for what seems like every function in existence. Not to mention a hex ansii/ascii table (though I prefer to use decimal and octal, hey, everyone has their preferences). I still go back to the tutorial to check the syntax for some things I rarely use.

Maybe I should end this "feud" with gabehabe now that he's a mod, 'cause if he gets too mad, then he can actually do bad things to my account. Too bad, it's fun . You past me in kudos again, gabehabe. Better get started on some more tutorials

This post has been edited by polymath: 11 Jul, 2008 - 12:56 PM

[xAlanxEnglandx]

Arg...

Hey, one of the main features of cplusplus.com is that in addition to the tutorial, you have references for what seems like every function in existence. Not to mention a hex ansii/ascii table (though I prefer to use decimal and octal, hey, everyone has their preferences). I still go back to the tutorial to check the syntax for some things I rarely use.

Maybe I should end this "feud" with gabehabe now that he's a mod, 'cause if he gets too mad, then he can actually do bad things to my account. Too bad, it's fun . You past me in kudos again, gabehabe. Better get started on some more tutorials

Thanks gabehabe and polymath but is it a good idea to go through a few tutorials than just learning from 1, or would learning from different tutorials at the same time confuse me?

and can you guys tell me what website/book you learnt from when you first started out? that might help me abit thanks

[gabehabe]

Start with one, and if you find it easy to understand, stick with it.

Then find some tutorials covering more advanced topics.

And damn straight I passed you in kudos again, poly

[polymath]

Agreed.

Oh, and gabehabe, I have 3 tutorials in the workings of being made, so don't get too comfortable . You have the advantage of being able to approve your own snippets (I think), so you don't have to wait the 1-10 days for it to get approved.

[gabehabe]

I don't approve my own stuff

[Bench]

More C++ Resources

FAQs
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/index.html - C++ FAQ
http://www.c-faq.com/ - comp.lang.c FAQ
http://www.comeaucomputing.com/learn/faq/ alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ FAQ

Useful C++ articles/reference resources
http://www.dinkumware.com/manuals/ - Dinkumware's C++ Libraries Reference manual
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/ - Bjarne Stroustrup's homepage
http://www.eternallyconfuzzled.com/ - A superb collection of assorted C/C++ tutorials
http://home.no.net/dubjai/win32cpptut/html/ - The correct C++ tutorial
http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/ - Beej's Network Programming Guide

Books
http://www.accu.org/ - Association of C and C++ Users - for C++ book reviews
http://www.rafb.net/efnet_cpp/books/ - the EFNET #C++ Recommended reading list
http://www.mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html Bruce Eckel's free E-book Thinking in C++ 2nd Ed.

[gabehabe]

Updated the list, thanks Bench

[Delta_Echo]

The best book i have ever read on C++, was "C++ Without Fear".

[gothik12]

I would like to add another C++ resource. It's the best reference (in my opinion) and very good structurated.

http://www.cppreference.com/

I hope it will be helpful

[xAlanxEnglandx]

Does anyone know if the fre book that MSDN offer is any good? Is it for beginners? Ime struggerling with OOP and need a good tutorial for it as the book Ime reading is confusing me so wondering if MSDN will offer better

thanks

[polymath]

In reply to that, xalanxenglandx, the best tutorial i have ever seen about oop is born2code at http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showtopic9873.htm

It is great! Though you should NOT use oop for everything, I often see oop overkill by making classes for every single solitary thing, which can be extremely annoying. In my opinion (I know i'll get flamed for this), you should only use oop in one of the following circumstances:

1. You're writing a header file and want to create something that contains all of your functions for the user, and you also want to "hide" as helper variables some vars (private vars/funcs so as to increase saftey/usability)

2. You're making a humongously complex project that requires several data structures to compartmentalize your information. If you find yourself writing this:

cpp

#include <iostream>
class HelloWorld {
   public:
      static int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
         std::cout << "Hello World!";
         return 0;
      }
}

You should stop