Question of the year!

[Alberto Trujillo]

Greetings to the group,

I want to initiate in this programming language, just as a hobbie.
I have made some small things in visual BASIC, but just at a private level.
Now I want to try it with C++.
MY QUESTION: Could you recommend a suitable software and book to me? (The
most popular or of wide distribution)
Please I would like that the software was not just to start of with but that
I will be able to
develop applications with it further ahead.

Thanks in advance,

A.Trujillo

 

[Victor Bazarov]

Greetings to the group,

I want to initiate in this programming language, just as a hobbie.

A hobbyist initiation is to bend over and slap yourself on the butt with
a wet mouse pad ten times. If you decide to go professional, do it
fifteen times more.

I have made some small things in visual BASIC, but just at a private level.
Now I want to try it with C++.

Watch out not to hurt your privates. C++ is much more dangerous than
any BASIC I know [of].

MY QUESTION: Could you recommend a suitable software and book to me? (The
most popular or of wide distribution)

For books, take a look at www.accu.org, the book review section. Also,
read the newsgroup archives. For compilers, you need to ask in a NG for
your OS of choice.

Please I would like that the software was not just to start of with but that
I will be able to
develop applications with it further ahead.

There are many tools available. To enumerate them all will take a very
long time and will result in a very long post. About 99% of them can be
used to develop professionally. Just pick a set and run with it. Do not
run with scissors, though.

V

 

[Mike Wahler]

Greetings to the group,

I want to initiate in this programming language, just as a hobbie.
I have made some small things in visual BASIC, but just at a private level.
Now I want to try it with C++.
MY QUESTION: Could you recommend a suitable software and book to me? (The
most popular or of wide distribution)
Please I would like that the software was not just to start of with but that
I will be able to
develop applications with it further ahead.

Thanks in advance,

http://www.comeaucomputing.com/learn/faq/
See sections 5, 6, 7. And you might as well
go ahead and read the other sections too.

Also see:
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/

-Mike

 

[Ioannis Vranos]

Greetings to the group,

I want to initiate in this programming language, just as a hobbie.
I have made some small things in visual BASIC, but just at a private level.
Now I want to try it with C++.
MY QUESTION: Could you recommend a suitable software and book to me? (The
most popular or of wide distribution)
Please I would like that the software was not just to start of with but that
I will be able to
develop applications with it further ahead.

http://www23.brinkster.com/noicys/learningcpp.htm

 

[Paavo Helde]

Greetings to the group,

I want to initiate in this programming language, just as a hobbie.

You are welcome!

I have made some small things in visual BASIC, but just at a private
level. Now I want to try it with C++.
MY QUESTION: Could you recommend a suitable software and book to me?
(The most popular or of wide distribution)
Please I would like that the software was not just to start of with
but that I will be able to
develop applications with it further ahead.

Book: Accelerated C++ by Koenig & Moo.

Compiler: Comeau is most standard-conforming, next choices are gcc and
Visual C++ 7 (for Windows only). gcc (called g++ when compiling C++) is
free and cross-platform. MS Visual C++ has a good integrated
documentation (MSDN library), but contains a lot of Windows-specific
overhead, you will need some experience to ignore the irrelevant parts.

Paavo