VC++ 101 book wanted

[Bob Richardson]

I'm brand new to C++ programming, but I have decades of experience in
Fortran, Pascal, & Delphi programming. I've just installed the Express
edition of Visual C++ 2005 and want to get started with C++. I'm interested
in Windows desktop apps. Is there a good text book that will help me through
the initial days of this new language and MS's IDE.

 

[Victor Bazarov]

I'm brand new to C++ programming, but I have decades of experience in
Fortran, Pascal, & Delphi programming. I've just installed the Express
edition of Visual C++ 2005 and want to get started with C++. I'm
interested in Windows desktop apps. Is there a good text book that
will help me through the initial days of this new language and MS's
IDE.

There probably is. Why don't you ask in a Windows programming newsgroup
about it or in 'microsoft.public.vc.language'?

V

 

[GB]

I'm brand new to C++ programming, but I have decades of experience in
Fortran, Pascal, & Delphi programming. I've just installed the Express
edition of Visual C++ 2005 and want to get started with C++. I'm interested
in Windows desktop apps. Is there a good text book that will help me through
the initial days of this new language and MS's IDE.

C++, Windows desktop programming, and the MS Visual C++ IDE are three
large separate subjects that are the topics of three or more separate
usenet groups. The comp.lang.c++ group deals only with the C++ part,
which does not include any GUI or IDE facilities.

If you want to learn C++ it is probably a good idea to start with pure
C++ programs that don't involve using a GUI or any other
Windows-specific facilities. That means creating what VC++ calls
"console" applications.

A good book for someone who has experience with other programming
languages is Accelerated C++ by Koenig and Moo. You can read about it
here: http://www.acceleratedcpp.com/. This does not discuss Windows
programming though. Another good one is C++ Primer 4th Edition by Lippman.

For Windows-specific programming, ask on a Windows group.

Whatever book you get, make sure it was written after 1998, which is
when the C++ language standard was completed and the language stopped
being a moving target.

Gregg