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MP2E

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Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 115

Learning C and C++

How would you recommend I do this? I understand the very basics, but I just can't seem to "take the plunge". How does someone get to a level suitable to program a game, a system utility, anything advanced?
( College classes aren't suitable right now )

Books, methods, tutorials, anything is appreciated

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djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: Learning C and C++

The best thing to start programming an application which will be used by you or others, not just learning C/C++ theoratically. Most of Linux programmer started so, they missed an application and feature and started to implement it, that's the best way, or to get such a junior job somewhere.

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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Re: Learning C and C++

My advice is reading some books: the classic is great for C++.

Runiq

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-10-29

Posts: 1,053

Re: Learning C and C++

Just plunge into it. If you got the basics down, you'll want to back them up with some actual programming practice. Look for something you want changed in a (reasonably simple) program.

I'm learning a bit of C atm, and I don't know jack yet, but I tried submitting a tiny patch to the musca WM. Learned a lot in the process, not only about the language itself, but also about diff, patching, writing my own custom PKGBUILD for the patch, etc.

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techprophet

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Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 209

Re: Learning C and C++

Qt4 is great for it if you understand concepts such as Classes, Pointers, and typedefs. But that's not really beginner level. Great learning though! (and wery usefull)

Hohoho

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Registered: 2007-06-23

Posts: 222

Re: Learning C and C++

You can also look into GTK if you want C only for now, or if you want to use C++ too you might try writing something with SDL, a simple game of tetris perhaps.

Rw-X

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Registered: 2009-08-03

Posts: 7

Re: Learning C and C++

here's a free book about C: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming