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I've been wondering if these lecture notes from an Introduction to C++ course are good material for me to learn the language.
Does this material contain any gross factual errors in it? Will I learn some concepts in a wrong way with them? Will I get any bad practices from it?
The original MIT Open Courseware C++ course was unfortunately of very low quality, full of factual errors. The next one, from the mid-term course a year later, was much improved. And judging from a cursory review of the first PDF you link to, the current stuff is good.
However, as #Muggen remarked, you should better get one of the well known C++ books such as one of the books in the Stack Overflow C++ book list, e.g. Accelerated C++.
A book is much more complete and dependable.
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I need to learn C++. Because I like the book's concept and I can already program in several other languages I thought "Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example" would be the best choice. However, the book is over 12 years old. Is it still a good idea to pick it up or would I be missing too many important new features of the language?
It remains one of the best books around. It's based on C++98, but C++03 is more bug fixes than anything else, and most programmers can't use anything more recent anyway. As with most languages that have been around for awhile, recent evolutions can be thought of as either fine tuning, or additional features to handle new issues (like threading).
I read some C++ books, and i recomend C++ Primer.
The way the author teaches the language is very insterestig.
Besides its a "heavy" book, you can learn more deeply the language and how to avoid errors.
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I'm a C++ programmer who wants to expand his knowledge into SQL language because I'm dealing with QtSQL module and would like to understand it better.
I would like to find a gentle introduction to SQL language for a C/C++ programmer.
Can you suggest some reading or a particular tutorial?
See this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31982/looking-for-a-good-book-to-learn-sql
the highest rated answer recommends 2 nice books for beginners.
Coming from C++ field doesn't make much difference in this case in my oppinion. Start from basic stuff and you'll be fine!
For a nice web tutorial you can also check this: http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp
COMMENT: You should not ask for recomendations in SO (although judging by your reputation you are aware of the rules). There are already various answers for this question as it is too generic and subjective. Read some books and tutorials and come back with SQL coding questions ;-)
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I am looking for a good book/article/reference on multithreaded programming in C++. I found few older threads where there are some recommendations. However, most of them are in Java. Does anyone know of anything strictly in C++?
Thanks in advance.
There's a book by manning called: C++ Concurrency in Action which looks very promising.
It should be available next month and it has a lot of C++ threading from how to create threads to advanced concurrency topic such as lock free collections (in C++!).
A nice video tutorial up to date with C++11 here MSDN. It's not for beginners and will only be helpful with a recent compiler.
An oldie but a goodie: O'Reilly's "Pthreads Programming" book. Examples are in C, which will work fine in a C++ program. If you're really looking for an OO approach, however, this probably won't cut it. I'd imagine there are more recent references but I found this to be a well written book when I read it years ago.
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Closed 11 years ago.
What are the prominent c++ online publications that an aspiring c++ must read? The Wall Street Journal projection from the financial world to the c++ world? I am less interested in blogs, but more solid, heavyweight, reviewed publications.
It looks to me that boost and templates are the new black, and there are books of course, however I don't see that many articles going on (see #1 above, maybe that's the reason).
What are the prominent c++ mailing lists that the serious c++ programmer must subscribe to.
Definitely a must read, GotW
This is a wrong place to ask this question though.
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I've been working on a game 2d ORPG Engine with a friend of mine, however we're having some troubles organizing and structuring the code.
I could use some pointers, guides, tutorials, etc. on how to keep the code flexible, extendible and maintainable.
Thanks for your time, Xeross
One of my preferred books:
C++ Coding Standards by Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu,
I'll just mark this as correct as the subject is too vague, my apologies, thanks for everyone replying though :)