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I just wonder if you can recommended me any book about introduction to SAS? I have programming background in OOp in C++ and java. some people recommend me:
Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language
The Little SAS Book: A Primer
SAS Applications Programming
Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language
any suggestion? thx
The Little SAS Book is a great resource. I still reference it from time to time, especially since I was away from the language for a while. Not familiar with the other books in the list.
In addition to the book references you already have, remember to use the documentation available on the SAS Support web site. If you are new to SAS, I'd very much recommend reading the SAS Concepts book. Here is the 9.3 version of the book. Also read the SAS Companion for your operating system.
Specific documentation can be a bit hard to find because there are so many different components. Look around the main documentation site for much, much more.
I'd strongly recommend the SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9 (now on third edition).
This gives you a thorough grounding in all the fundamental concepts of the data step, and gives you practice questions to test what you have learned. It is also great preparation for the SAS Certification exam.
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HI all!
I'm currently taking the course Operating Systems in my university. We mainly study theory and have simple exercises in c++ to exercise some theoretical principles.
I want to study more about the practical programming in concurrency and threads in c\c++ and i was wondering if any of you have a good book to recommend on.
Thank you all
Introduction to parallel computing: https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/
POSIX threads programming: https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/
If you will be working with UNIX-like systems, then I recommend Programming With POSIX Threads by David R. Butenhof.
If you will be working with Microsoft Windows, then I recommend Writing Multithreaded Applications in Win32 by Jim Beveridge and Robert Wiener.
Irrespective of which threading package(s) you will end up using, I recommend you look at two presentations I wrote: Generic Synchronization Policies and Multi-threaded Performance Pitfalls. Those short presentations contain useful information that, unfortunately, is not discussed in many other books and articles.
I have also been looking for such a book, they are very hard to come by. This one will be released in May, if that's any help:
http://www.manning.com/williams/
I purchased this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0123705916/ref=oss_product
It's very good, it's in java, but most of the principles apply to c/c++ anyway.
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Closed 10 years ago.
I would like to learn about streams in C++. I have done some googling and searching on Amazon and have not had any success in finding a book/web resource on this topic. Any suggestions would be much appreciated! I have found some information on sites like cplusplus and forums, but I'm still still unclear about a number of issues. I would really like a clear, comprehensive resource.
One thing that I would like to do is get input for my programs from external files.
Thank you for any suggestions.
Standard C++ IOStreams and locales by Langer and Kreft is dedicated to streams (and locales, which streams use extensively), but it sounds like you want a general overview as you'd find in a general reference or introductory book.
I don't know of a book that deals with streams as its major subject. I'm sure you can find a lot of resources on the Internet, but judging their quality may be difficult. The following two books have rather good coverage of streams and might be work looking into. Of course they cover a lot more than just streams.
The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup
The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference by Nicholai Josuttis
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Do you have any recommendations on great video courses as a complement to books for learning C++?
Have not used these and I'm not sure about international shipping, but these are partly taught by Yashavant Kanetkar.
Quest C++ Programming
Don't let the 550 price throw you, it's in Rupees so about $13 US.
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ShowMeDo It's a nice place to start seeing for C++ and more.
Wrath Lands is a project about creating a text based RPG in C++. It's not really something you'd want to learn C++ for the first time with, but it is basically a guy starting from scratch and creating a game, dictating and trying to explain what and why he's doing it while also dealing with errors.
I found it to be entertaining at the least with some good pieces of information. Definitely not a standard though.
The Stanford CS deparment has several courses that you can watch (free) online. Of iterest to you may the Programming Paradigms lectures, which cover an intro to C++ among other topics.
MIT also appears to have a similar course available.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/bb496952.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288436%28VS.71%29.aspx
Nothing beats stanford course Its quite comprehensive
I really like Pluralsight
They offer 5 C++ courses as of today, and for 29 bucks you can watch them all within a month.
It is based on Windows/Visual Studio, but the knowledge is applicable in all other platforms. The courses also include the last features of the language.
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Closed 11 years ago.
I am looking for quick reference guide(s) for both OO and C++. I have a few technical interviews coming up and I just want a quick reference that gives the basic overview of the fundamentals. (Nothing too in depth, as I've learned it all once before)
Have a look at this C++ tutorial online.
There is also Bruce Eckel's Thinking In C++ freely available book.
C++ FAQ Lite is searchable and Herb Sutter's Guru Of The Week series feature many tricky puzzles.
Steve Yegge at google has a couple of excellent summaries of interview questions here and here.
Here's a site that's dedicated to Object Oriented Programming in C++. It provides quick coverage of the basic concepts.
For pure OO info, you might want to review the basic terminology (not C++ related) on Wikipedia's Object-oriented design page.
Stroustrup's FAQ is a good jumping off point to refresh some things. For a terminology refresher it's hard to beat the OO Wiki page.
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Does anyone know of free C++ assessment tests?
I would like to practice my C++ skils before interviews. Brainbench used to have it for free; now they want $49.99 and I think it's rip off..
Most of those "C++ questions" and pay-for-view packets are a ripoff and often a scam.
If you are interviewing at a big company, explicitly Google their name and c++ interview questions. Enough people post the interview questions online, and these companies are way too lazy to actually change this question set. Examples include Google, Bloomberg, and others.
If you want to ace interviews that ask about c++ corner cases, consider the c++ faq or the C++ faq lite (http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/). It's not questions, but it's the most valuable C++ resource IMHO.
And if you don't use C++ on a day to day basis, try to write some code and compile. I was humbled after too many years of Java to see how much of the syntax is no longer natural to me.
You might want to try My CPP Quiz as that has a set of very comprehensive C++ questions. If you can get through those easily you could consider yourself having a satisfactory understanding of basic C++.
http://www.mycppquiz.com
There is plenty of algorithmic problems to solve at SPOJ. Some of them are straightforward, well known algorithms implementations (see also The Problems classifier) some are harder. The online judge service will check your code's correctness online.