IS said:
I'm about to study C++ on my own.
I was wandering if there are any cheap C++ compilers you could recommend?
Well, the simplest recommendation is the Gnu C compiler, GCC -- that's
what I use. So long as you don't mind using a command-line program
rather than a pretty GUI, it's quite good, and (being Gnu) it doesn't
cost anything.
Microsoft also appears to make a command-line version of their C++
compiler available for free download, although I haven't tried it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
Also can you recommend a beginner book for me too?
That depends heavily on what you already know, I think -- in particular,
how good a programmer (in other languages) are you already? Do you know
C?
I'd already been programming in Fortran for ten years when I decided to
learn C++, and so I found Stroustrop's _The C++ Programming Language_
(and a good idea of a problem I wanted to solve) to be more effective
than most so-called "beginner books" for learning the language. But I
may be weird that way.... The first few chapters have a good tour
through the basics of the language, with examples, which are at a level
appropriate for people who are already reasonably good programmers in
other languages; the rest of it is a fairly complete reference guide to
the standard libraries, which .
- Brooks