C++ Advice?

Nappy

Hey guys I have an exam coming up in 3 weeks in C++ programming, I have'nt done to well in continuous assessment and am a bit lost too be honest. Can anyone think of any good websites or books I should look at to help cram in this whole language in 3 weeks.

Would appreciate any help..

Cheers..

Lab_Mouse

http://www.cplusplus.com/

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html#c++tutorial

this a good forum for c++,you will get quick replys from programmers and are patient too.Having said that boards.ie is a good move too:)

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/

nobodythere

Nappy wrote: »

Hey guys I have an exam coming up in 3 weeks in C++ programming, I have'nt done to well in continuous assessment and am a bit lost too be honest. Can anyone think of any good websites or books I should look at to help cram in this whole language in 3 weeks.

Would appreciate any help..

Cheers..

Ask lots of questions, don't get stuck trying to figure out concepts, it's 100 times easier if you can have a go yourself and ask specific questions, you'll find people are willing to help if you've put some effort in.

Above that though, PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE. I can only speak for myself, but it's near impossible to learn a language by reading a book about it. Start writing programs, compiling, messing around with them, figure out what they do and why they work or don't work, look at basic examples and don't just copy and paste them in.

Fundamentally, getting the whole modular/functional/object orientated concept down is a necessary starting point. You will get lost otherwise. It's about breaking the program into small pieces that you can manage, so you don't have to view it as a whole, each function/class has its own purpose, see this post http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=58765083&postcount=4

Webmonkey

Nappy wrote: »

Hey guys I have an exam coming up in 3 weeks in C++ programming, I have'nt done to well in continuous assessment and am a bit lost too be honest. Can anyone think of any good websites or books I should look at to help cram in this whole language in 3 weeks.

Would appreciate any help..

Cheers..

How much have you done, what problems do you have to solve - are you doing it object oriented or just doing algorithms C style coding.

Any questions ask here.

mountainyman

msystems.csd.auth.gr/books/C++%20Weekend%20Crash%20Course.pdf -

Buy the book C++ a weekend crash course. It took me over a week because I was a VB programmer. If you can't buy it the link above is a legal download. But it will be easier to understand if you buy the hard copy.

Then buy or borrow thinking in C++ or your own coursebook.

By the way is it C++ that is the problem or programming itself because if it is programming the above advice may be bad advice.


Also download the MIT video lecture series on Algorithims.
MM

Nappy

Thanks for all the advice guys, Its an introduction course im doing, just got my head round the various if's and while statements, now going through functions on arrays, I attended a class there lately in which matrix operation was being discussed and we had to write functions to carry out tasks such as matrix addition, subtraction, getting the inverse/transpose of a matrix, identifying whether a matrix i symmetric and other properties, I was a bit lost there... Ill get back too you with questions once Ive studied it in more depth...


Thanks..

stephenlane80

mountainyman wrote: »

Then buy or borrow thinking in C++ or your own coursebook.

If this is the same publication i am thinking about, you can get an electronic copy free at the authors site:

http://mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html

By far the best c++ book i have read to date.