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Closed 12 years ago.
I'm confused should i learn C++ or ASM?
I'm just a hobbyist so no big deal but i need some advise.
thank you
Very Subjective but I would say learn C. Its the most basic language you will ever need to know. (If you know it you can grasp how assembly works without learning it). Then build on it and learn C++. If you don't know C (pointers, memory management, simple stack/function usage), I would learn it first before piling on C++ (with classes, inheritance, overloads, more complicated memory management).
Thats just my opinion though...
If you're a hobbyist, anything that seems interesting and fun to you will work.
The real question is : what software do you want to make? The project is the important thing.
Then the constraints relative to this kind of software will drive you to make your choice.
C++, ASM is very interesting, but nothing you should nowadays use as your primary language.
Are you a hardware hobbyist? ASM
Are you a game or other software-specific hobbyist? C++
Are you a My Little Pony hobbyist? PonyProg
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Closed 10 years ago.
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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Closed 10 years ago.
I remember reading in Hacker News about a modern C-like language with pretty nifty features, but I can't find it again. The name I can evoke is "C9", but that's not yielding search results.
It was pretty much a superset of C, with multi-pass compilation (and thus, no need for headers and forward declarations) and namespaces, as well as dynamic array syntax and string handling sugar.
I'm about to embark in a low-level project, and this would be a fantastic opportunity to try it out. My C is a bit rusty, I'm afraid, after years of python and coffeescript, so it would surely come in very handy.
Any hope somebody in SO has heard about it, or a similar project?
I think I read the same article. It sounds like C2, including the multi-pass parsing.
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Closed 11 years ago.
My question is this, why do people still use C when they have C++?
I've studied C because it is considered the language on which programmers communicate and is recommended for any programmer to know. I've then passed to C++ and I now think, why do people still use and program in C?
As far as I see, C++ is more powerful (has OOP aspects in it), it is as fast as C and overall just seems to be better. I've seen people dislike C++ because it is too hard to code in.
C is much simpler, and more fun to program in.
But what's more, the compiler is much much easier to write so there are still lots of environments where you can either only get a C compiler or the C++ compiler is far inferior (buggy, slower, generates bloated binaries).
C is often used for hardware programming, some microcontrollers and similar hardware often have a compiler which turns C code into native instructions for it. It makes programming those pieces of hardware much simpler than writing raw assembly.
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Closed 12 years ago.
c or c++??
if i want to make a project on pattern recognition( artificial computing)
using c or c++
which one should i choose??
Object Oriented Programming can probably be of some help if you start programming something complex. That is possible with C but will probably be easier using C++. That said there is a risk to get lost on the multitude of features of the language if you are just learning it, and it's probably less so with C. But it's not so hard to use only a subset of C++, so definitely C++.
The most important point is that you should first focus on the problem(s) to solve before focusing on the tools you are using.
I would use something high level so you could learn about your own algorithms and not how to implement your algorithms. If you can write pattern recognition single handedly in C I applaud you. It is beyond my skill.
Perhaps Ruby or Python then implementing the computationally expensive parts in native C?
Since C++ is effectively a superset of C, there is no good reason not to use C++.
I think that is the least of your worries. C is available on more platforms, C++ has more features.
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Closed 12 years ago.
since last four years i had been coding in c/c++, but those lenthy programs made me sick of them.
then i got to know about python, and i have learned the basics.
python seams to be more flexible and powerful than c++...
But i want to know is python realy better than c++?
if yes/no in what ways , please explain.
since i am a student , practicing which language would fetch me better job?
Python is completely different than C/C++, so it's hard to compare. Python lets you write clear, concise programs and very quickly develop software at the price of performance. It lets you be very productive and in many cases program performance is less concern, than programmer performance.
There are many existing programs for python 2.*, so it's better to stick for now with it. It would be fairly easy to move to 3.* later on.
It all depends on your needs, Python isn't replacing C/C++ in the embedded space anytime soon, and not too many web frameworks are going to be based on C/C++.
Python is neither better nor worse, or neither more or less flexible or powerful than C++. it's just aimed at a different set of problems.
I would rather students start at something like C++ so they have a better understanding of things like pointers & memory management. It's not really objects all the way down.