NEWBIE C++ Help

[edit] wouldn't be bad to make this a sticky thread, so others may be able to use it without me repeating myself. This is a very common question here.[/edit]



if you don't have a compiler (to make .exe) go to
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http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/index.htmldownload version 4, version 5 is a buggy beta. if you do dl ver.5, then update .exe using cvs at sourceforge.



As for books go, the best one is "The c++ programming language" by Bjarne Stroustup (the inventer of c++) is the best. Itis one of those books that from a beginner to Linus Torvalds (linux guy) and developpers use.



edit: the sites below all helped me in some way or another. First you should learn c programming, then move on to c++ and win32api and other api's.




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http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/This site covers a lot! I learned a lot of Object Oriented Programming from here.


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http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/This is a handy site for beginners. This has examples and instructions for many standard library functions.


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http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/This is handy resource. Most of functions show prototypes and explenations for all of STL.


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http://www.allegro.ccThis has an easy to use complete game programming library. It's well evolved and used. It supports directx hardware accel through its functions.


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http://www.sourceforge.netThis is for those of you interrested in developping open source, giving feedback, bug reporting, latest builds, and complete code of some of your favorite apps... and much much more.


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http://oopweb.com/CPP/Files/CPP.htmlThis has a list of many tutorials and other resources.


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http://www.msdn.microsoft.comA developer's ultimate resource.


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http://www.winprog.org/tutorialThe best site for learning windows programming. The guy set out to make it easy and quick. I think he certainly achieved his goal.


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http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.htmlanother c tutorial


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http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.htmlThe inventors home page.


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http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html