To Learn C++......................?

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Re: To Learn C++......................?

Post by ian_halsall » Wed Oct 24, 2012 4:33 pm

Wow, learning programming and a foreign language at the same time.

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Re: To Learn C++......................?

Post by ark » Wed Oct 24, 2012 4:58 pm

I'd like to make a slightly self-serving remark by suggesting that if you're serious about learning to program in C++, you should start with this book, which my wife and I wrote, or this book, which she wrote by herself (or, more accurately, rewrote from the previous edition, which in turn she rewrote from the edition before that, which in turn two other people wrote).

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Re: To Learn C++......................?

Post by jonny72 » Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:33 pm

Provided you've got an iPad there are some pretty good classes on iTunes U.

Stanford have a good range on there, starting with Programming Methodology and then moving on to more advanced ones. You get videos of all the lectures plus all the course notes and assignments - only thing missing is the tutor to mark your assignments and answer any questions.

I'd really recommend starting with learning the fundamentals of programming, rather than just learning how to code a specific language.
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Re: To Learn C++......................?

Post by snakedogman » Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:09 am

There's a couple of different programming courses on Coursera as well.
I started with Computer Science 101 by Nick Parlante, and now following "Learn to Program: The Fundamentals" and "An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python". These are both Python classes, and the latter one is using simple games as a basis.

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Re: To Learn C++......................?

Post by ian_halsall » Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:58 am

ark wrote:I'd like to make a slightly self-serving remark by suggesting that if you're serious about learning to program in C++, you should start with this book, which my wife and I wrote, or this book, which she wrote by herself (or, more accurately, rewrote from the previous edition, which in turn she rewrote from the edition before that, which in turn two other people wrote).
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Re: To Learn C++......................?

Post by Mudo » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:09 am

ian_halsall wrote:Wow, learning programming and a foreign language at the same time.

Narsty
Not really, the "sheets" are english oriented due to english domination for code programming... but yes, some of them had Spanish and other had Catalan (more similar to French than Spanish).

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Re: To Learn C++......................?

Post by Mudo » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:09 am

ian_halsall wrote:Wow, learning programming and a foreign language at the same time.

Narsty
Not really, the "sheets" are english oriented due to english domination for code programming... but yes, some of them had Spanish and other had Catalan (more similar to French than Spanish).

;)

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Re: To Learn C++......................?

Post by ian_halsall » Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:24 am

so spanish, french and catalan and c++ in one go

a veritable polymathic undertaking

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Re: To Learn C++......................?

Post by simmerdown » Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:35 pm

Coursera, excelllent idea!

ark, thats impressive as hell

thanks all! checked Basic Programming for Dummmies out of the library, just for those very basic concepts, i might just need to read it too

got Unity installed, they are going to try to create the concept theyve been working up in Blender-Unity , and take it from there

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