Where do I start when learning to program c++?

[theguy]

I'm going to try and learn C++ sometime in my life so why not start now?

[pikzen]

Get a book or read internet tutorials. Haven't made much C++ so I couldn't recommand any for you.

[eXeC64]

The best series of tutorials that I know of are here: [url]www.learncpp.com[/url]

It's very well explained there.

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[xAustechx]

[url]http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/[/url]

I think this site is pretty good and well explained. : )

[blankthemuffin]

Get a real book if you want to learn C++.

Don't learn C++ if you want to learn to program and have no prior experience. [url]http://learnpythonthehardway.com/index[/url] is a much better alternative.

Bring back gparent's sticky.

[20k]

[QUOTE=xAustechx;25782458][url]http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/[/url]

I think this site is pretty good and well explained. : )[/QUOTE]

I learnt it from there, and it skips over half the stuff you need to know

[BlkDucky]

[QUOTE=xAustechx;25782458][url]http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/[/url]

I think this site is pretty good and well explained. : )[/QUOTE]

I think it's good as a quick reference, but I heard the tutorials aren't so good.

[eXeC64]

[QUOTE=BlkDucky;25786130]I think it's good as a quick reference, but I heard the tutorials aren't so good.[/QUOTE]

Thats why I recommended [url]www.learncpp.com[/url]
The tutorials there explain things properly.

[VeniVidiVici74]

Download Borland C++. It is the most basic version of C++ programming.

[AtomiC0l]

[QUOTE=xAustechx;25782458][url]http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/[/url]

I think this site is pretty good and well explained. : )[/QUOTE]

Yeah they might be explaining it good. But for a newbie those tutorials is like being explained to by a professor as if he's explaining it to another professor.

[esalaka]

[QUOTE=VeniVidiVici74;25786505]Download Borland C++. It is the most basic version of C++ programming.[/QUOTE]

...What, why would anyone use Borland's compilers nowadays?

[Random112358]

Use Visual C++, it is the best one I have found for been easy to use and has all these little touches that make your life a lot easier.

I started learning C++ by just finding a basic tutorial, working through it and then playing around, looking up things that were mentioned in tutorials that I didn't understand and reading a lot of code done by others.

The main thing you need to get your head around are pointers, makes life far, far easier when doing large programs.

[esalaka]

[QUOTE=Random112358;25827583]The main thing you need to get your head around are pointers, makes life far, far easier when doing large programs.[/QUOTE]

Far... Easier? You probably won't need pointers all that much, cause there's references in C++. They're supposed to be used for many old common uses of pointers.

Not to say you [B]shouldn't[/B] learn pointers, though. It's important.

[backwardspy]

Well, your program starts in main() so I guess you should head over there and see what's going down.