Frustration

[sail3005]

Arrrrg! Well, thanks for that link to the winprog tutorial. That is by far the best tutorial i have seen. What i was wondering is how do all you guys learn c++ here? I mean, i have been searching for tutorials for weeks just like winprog, and this is the first one i have found.

So i guess what i am asking is, is it possible to get reasonably good at c++ just by taking online tutorials? How did you guys learn? I have bought several books, and taken several online tutorials, but they are either all too basic or way too advanced.

thanks

[HarryW]

Books. That's it really. In fact I don't do much actual coding, I spend most of my time learning. I don't use online tutorials really.

You can read Sam's Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days online here (http://www.itknowledge.com/reference/archive/0672310708/htm/fm.htm) if you like, I have heard good things about the Sam's series of books so it should be a pretty good level of difficulty.

[Vlatko]

"Thinking in C++"
http://www.codecuts.com/codecuts/pdfs/bruceeckel/TIC2Vone.pdf
http://www.codecuts.com/codecuts/pdfs/bruceeckel/TIC2Vtwo.pdf

[Technocrat]

I tried to do online tutorials which help some.
Personally the best help for me was Beginning Visual C++ 6 by Ivor Horton. Its a great book that starts you off with all the basic stuff and moves up to the more advance stuff slowly.
After that I just starting to think up programs I wanted to make and tried to create them. I started off with real basic things like out putting to the dos console and so forth moving on to move advanced things as I got better. All long the way I tried to find other source code I could look at that was simular and tried to leard what each piece of code did. This was a major help when I got to some of the more advanced things. Remember that most of the time you are not going to be doing something that someone else has not done before.

Oh and another big help was asking alot of questions on boards like this one. As you must already know :)

[sail3005]

Cool thanks, I guess i'll start looking at some books

[HarryW]

I have the book by Ivor Horton that Technocrat mentioned too, and I agree it's pretty good. It starts you off nice and slow and then moves on a a good pace. Good beginners' book (as the title would suggest) but I've heard that the MFC coverage towards the end of the book isn't that great. That doesn't bother me, as I'm not that interested in MFC, I'd rather do API stuff. Anyway, good book, take a look.