Lost

[Delboy]

i've been learning c++ since november but i'm lost.
all i can do at the time being is inputs and outputs, ifs, elses, whiles and
switches. it's all very basic stuff, but i'm stuck there, no matter how
many tut's i read i can't seem to progress any further. what would you guys
recommend? =/

thanks

 

[Matthias]

i've been learning c++ since november but i'm lost.
all i can do at the time being is inputs and outputs, ifs, elses, whiles and
switches. it's all very basic stuff, but i'm stuck there, no matter how
many tut's i read i can't seem to progress any further. what would you guys
recommend? =/

thanks

You should give yourself a task. Write a small application, something
which you think is fun to do, this helps keeping the motivation. And
while you're at it, read a decent book about C++. Online tutorials are
mostly either way too basic, or way too specific to be of any help for a
beginner.

I think the first program I wrote in C++ was a Windows window using the
Win32 API. Jesus, that was a lot of work to get something which does
basically nothing. But at least I had some feeling of accomplishment,
which is IMO essential for a beginner to stick with the language.

 

[SnaiL]

i've been learning c++ since november but i'm lost.
all i can do at the time being is inputs and outputs, ifs, elses, whiles and
switches. it's all very basic stuff, but i'm stuck there, no matter how
many tut's i read i can't seem to progress any further. what would you guys
recommend? =/

thanks

Read Gamma, Alexandrescu, Meyers... Try to get high education

 

[roguenoir]

Take a class in it, whether it's at school or one of those free online
classes. No pun intended.

 

[Thomas Matthews]

i've been learning c++ since november but i'm lost.
all i can do at the time being is inputs and outputs, ifs, elses, whiles and
switches. it's all very basic stuff, but i'm stuck there, no matter how
many tut's i read i can't seem to progress any further. what would you guys
recommend? =/

thanks

Try writing a simple console application:
Tic-Tac-Toe (Naughts and Crosses)
Animal Guessing (i.e. "does it have fur?...")
Towers of Hanoi
BlackJack / 21


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[Ioannis Vranos]

i've been learning c++ since november but i'm lost.
all i can do at the time being is inputs and outputs, ifs, elses, whiles and
switches. it's all very basic stuff, but i'm stuck there, no matter how
many tut's i read i can't seem to progress any further. what would you guys
recommend? =/

Have you read any C++ book? Try "Accelerated C++" by Andrew Koenig,
Barbara Moo and after that proceed either with "The C++ Programming
Language" 3rd Edition or Special Edition (TC++PL) by Bjarne Stroustrup
(the creator of C++), or you can read a book about some specific
platform API (e.g. .NET) and then read TC++PL.

 

[Ioannis Vranos]

Have you read any C++ book? Try "Accelerated C++" by Andrew Koenig,
Barbara Moo and after that proceed either with "The C++ Programming
Language" 3rd Edition or Special Edition (TC++PL) by Bjarne Stroustrup
(the creator of C++), or you can read a book about some specific
platform API (e.g. .NET) and then read TC++PL.

That is, "Accelerated C++" -> TC++PL -> Some platform API

or

"Accelerated C++" -> Some platform API -> TC++PL

 

[Delboy]

there's some good idea's there, thanks v much
i've looked in colleges in my area for a course but they don't have any
available.
the only place you can get a course is to pay hundreds and hundreds from one
of those home learning places.
it's not really worth it for a hobbie =/

 

[FiSHer]

Little offtopic, but I think it may help.
There is a ftp site with lots of documentation. Absolutely free.
ftp://runnet.ru
Although it's a Russian resource, most of the books are in English(in
pdf and chm format)

 

[Delboy]

doesn't appear to be working...but thanks