RE: Tips for c++ [needed]
April 9, 2012 at 3:37 pm
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2012 at 3:39 pm by Autumnlicious.)
(April 9, 2012 at 5:40 am)Tiberius Wrote: An IDE is the best thing you could do to improve your knowledge IMO. I've discovered far more about Java through using NetBeans than I ever did at university.
Indeed. IDE's with their inbuilt documentation, integrated debuggers and code suggestions can give a lot of initial ideas and hunches, which is excellent for rapid improvement.
(April 9, 2012 at 1:46 pm)libalchris Wrote: If you want to be a REAL programmer, you need linux.
No you fucking don't. This is coming from one who was using FreeBSD4 at 11 years old.
You don't need Linux to learn damn near anything, except about Linux and software that runs empirically better on it as a platform. Oh, and how a particular OS is constructed. But that's about it.
(April 9, 2012 at 1:46 pm)libalchris Wrote: If you're using windows though I'm not sure what I'd recommend. I learned on linux and I just used the gcc compiler, and edited the files in the KATE file editor.Kate is a nice editor. It's fills the niche that Notepad++ fills on Windows and TextMate on Mac.
(April 9, 2012 at 1:46 pm)libalchris Wrote: I cannot remember if that tutorial is completely compatible with linux or not. Windows has some libraries that linux doesn't, so if this tutorial uses them then it will only work with a windows compiler
If the tutorial is using libraries outside of the standard included ones, then the tutorial is fucked up.
In any case, a Windows C++ developer who wants to use GCC et al should really install the Git+ Shell/MinGW shell if they want to experiment further with automating/testing their shit.
But Code::Blocks + TDM-GCC will get any C/C++ developer into gear.
(April 9, 2012 at 1:46 pm)libalchris Wrote: Don't ask me for help though, I really don't know much and what I did know I've probably forgotten lolLol. "I'll help you but won't help you."
(April 9, 2012 at 3:31 pm)Napoleon Wrote: Well soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorry.
I believe you mean "Thank you".
Or would you really have liked to try to develop your professional career and say, stupidly, in front of your peers:
"Well I understand that C is a primitive version of C++..."
Realize that being given pointers to corrected information when you're wrong is a luxury. Most people simply call another "stupid" and walk away.
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