C++ Beginners question

[henk]

I want to straat with c++, but what do i need for that?
I saw ms visual c++ .net standard v 2003, is this a good start? in do i
have than everything i need in that package?

Henk.

 

[Victor Bazarov]

I want to straat with c++, but what do i need for that?

Usually you need a good book, a text editor, and a compiler. I
presume you already have a computer with an operating system on it.

I saw ms visual c++ .net standard v 2003, is this a good start? in do
i have than everything i need in that package?

It is a good start, although it probably not cheap. You can find
a free compiler. Look for "Dev-C++". Alternatively, I'd recommend
MS Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. It's free and quite good. Do
not get distracted by setting up projects, managing configurations
and so on. Begin with using the command-line compiler. You will
still need a good book. Look at www.accu.org for book reviews or
sift through the news archives for gazillion of book recommendations.

V

 

[henk]

Victor Bazarov schreef:

Usually you need a good book, a text editor, and a compiler. I
presume you already have a computer with an operating system on it.




It is a good start, although it probably not cheap. You can find
a free compiler. Look for "Dev-C++". Alternatively, I'd recommend
MS Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. It's free and quite good. Do
not get distracted by setting up projects, managing configurations
and so on. Begin with using the command-line compiler. You will
still need a good book. Look at www.accu.org for book reviews or
sift through the news archives for gazillion of book recommendations.

V

Ok thanks for the help!, i shall get the prorgams later.

Henk.

 

[pauldepstein]

Usually you need a good book, a text editor, and a compiler. I
presume you already have a computer with an operating system on it.


It is a good start, although it probably not cheap. You can find
a free compiler. Look for "Dev-C++". Alternatively, I'd recommend
MS Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. It's free and quite good. Do
not get distracted by setting up projects, managing configurations
and so on. Begin with using the command-line compiler. You will
still need a good book. Look at www.accu.org for book reviews or
sift through the news archives for gazillion of book recommendations.

V

I, myself, am a beginner who is using Dev C++. I'm struggling with the
debugger a bit, and my impression is that other debuggers are better.
So that may be a downside for Dev C++ compared to most others.

Paul Epstein

 

[henk]

(e-mail address removed) schreef:

I, myself, am a beginner who is using Dev C++. I'm struggling with the
debugger a bit, and my impression is that other debuggers are better.
So that may be a downside for Dev C++ compared to most others.

Paul Epstein

I'm now downloading ms visual c++ express, i have no experience with
programming, so for now i stick with that for start.

henk

 

[JustBoo]

I want to straat with c++, but what do i need for that?
I saw ms visual c++ .net standard v 2003, is this a good start? in do i
have than everything i need in that package?
Henk.

If you have already purchased it, AFAIK, yes.

If you haven't bought it yet there are some alternatives:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/cpp.shtml
should get you started. Search yourself though.

This is a good group for Standard C++ questions.

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,
is the group for specific Windows questions.

Good Luck

 

[henk]

JustBoo schreef:

If you have already purchased it, AFAIK, yes.

If you haven't bought it yet there are some alternatives:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/cpp.shtml
should get you started. Search yourself though.

This is a good group for Standard C++ questions.

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,
is the group for specific Windows questions.

Good Luck

No i have not purchased anything already.
I'm gonna have a look at the mentioned adres.
Thanks.

henk

 

[frankgerlach]

The best debugger is a couple of printf() statements at the right
place... In many cases this is the *only* feasible debugger. For
example, if a program exits after processing 5000 records, you can
hardly step though it 5000 times and then discover the problem with
your debugger (OK, you could watch a counter and break at 4999, but
this is already quite sophisticated). Reading/grep-ing a log written by
some properly placed printf()s is often the fastest way to find a bug.
And if you think that microsoft's debugger is not good, try gdb - you
will quickly want the ms debugger again

 

[JustBoo]

The best debugger is a couple of printf() statements at the right
place... In many cases this is the *only* feasible debugger.

True. The same thing can be realized with iostreams as well. It's
considered more modern and standard, at least in this group.
Just a different way to get the same output.

Reading/grep-ing a log written by
some properly placed printf()s is often the fastest way to find a bug.

I find them very useful for temporal based programs. (Programs that
must run over time with many state variables that change over time.)

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