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Online C++ course recommendation

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  • 18-04-2017 9:20pm
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    Keplar240B
    Registered Users Posts: 883 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I need to study C++.

    Requirements
    Online , ideally free or very cheap , Beginner to immediate level , self paced and some sort of documentation or certification i.e just something to show I actually did it.

    Can anyone point me in right direction here?
    Appreciated

    Regards.


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    14ned
    Registered Users Posts: 768 ✭✭✭14ned


    Keplar240B wrote: »
    I need to study C++.

    Heh. If you knew anything about C++, you'd realise the heh, it takes years to learn enough C++ to become useful in it.
    Keplar240B wrote: »
    Requirements
    Online , ideally free or very cheap , Beginner to immediate level , self paced and some sort of documentation or certification i.e just something to show I actually did it.

    Almost all of the online courses in C++ are worse than useless. They are full of bad, incorrect, and even illegal C++. Seeing completion of them predominantly mentioned on a CV usually means it goes in the bin.

    But you really want one, the top ten Google results all look equally as awful as one another. Choose your poison.

    Niall


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    Alcoheda
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭Alcoheda


    Find a program you're interested in on github.
    Get it compiling and running.
    Learn how to use a debugger.

    Hack hack hack.


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    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users Posts: 7,007 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    Hi,

    A couple of years ago I stumbled across a guy called Jamie King on youtube. At the time he was a college lecturer in some random university in Utah who made software videos in his spare time. I watched all 200+ of his C# video and they were amazing. He has this gift for explaining complex topics in layman's terms that really resonated with me. He also is genuinely funny which helps a lot.

    Anyway, I noticed that he also has done a lot of C++ videos. I haven't watched them but I'd be shocked if they weren't also excellent.

    You can check them out for yourself here.


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    14ned
    Registered Users Posts: 768 ✭✭✭14ned


    Brussels Sprout wrote: »
    Anyway, I noticed that he also has done a lot of C++ videos. I haven't watched them but I'd be shocked if they weren't also excellent.

    All the big C++ conferences now put all their talks online:

    There are also videos online for the C++ Now conference (Aspen) and the Meeting C++ conference (Berlin).

    If you watch several years of those and can speak about their content and the speakers usefully, you'll impress in an interview.

    Niall


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