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I have been looking on Amazon for a book to teach myself C++ and am wondering if anyone can help?
I have a good understanding of programming, but unfortunately only of relatively obsolete languages and need to learn languages that will be more useful within industry, so I do not need to learn how to program e.t.c, just the C++ language.
From what I can gather C is a procedural language, whereas C++ is Object Orientated, is it worth learning both for industry or just C++? I know this can depend on what type of programming I plan to do, but at the moment I don't know.
Also there are many different types of C, mainly just different compilers, but again which one should I choose? Which one would be the most useful?
Finally getting back to my original point of which book to choose, the problem is that every author and his dog seem to have written a book on C programming! There are literally thousands to choose from, any ideas?
I have a good understanding of programming, but unfortunately only of relatively obsolete languages and need to learn languages that will be more useful within industry, so I do not need to learn how to program e.t.c, just the C++ language.
From what I can gather C is a procedural language, whereas C++ is Object Orientated, is it worth learning both for industry or just C++? I know this can depend on what type of programming I plan to do, but at the moment I don't know.
Also there are many different types of C, mainly just different compilers, but again which one should I choose? Which one would be the most useful?
Finally getting back to my original point of which book to choose, the problem is that every author and his dog seem to have written a book on C programming! There are literally thousands to choose from, any ideas?
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BTW. I have not copied AlexFM suggestion, just have spent more than 3 minutes in writting my post.
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About guntherothk comment, I agree fully with last paragraph. But I think still is a good idea to learn pure C before learning C++, because this allow you to concentrate in some fundamental topics like pointers. Some pure C++ programmers lacks of a clear pointer/buffer awareness, and this topic is one of the cornerstones of C/C++ language.
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Sorry it's taken me so long to reply, but my computer has ben in for repair and has takeen ages to be returned.
Anyhow, i've looked at the reports for both the books mentioned by Sterhar, and am happy that they will be useful, so have ordered them. Also the free online book mentioned by AlexFM and Jaime Olivares looks useful too, as is the information on which compilers.
Thanks all, for your help!
Anyhow, i've looked at the reports for both the books mentioned by Sterhar, and am happy that they will be useful, so have ordered them. Also the free online book mentioned by AlexFM and Jaime Olivares looks useful too, as is the information on which compilers.
Thanks all, for your help!