Re: [LAD] C++ guide

2014-06-14 Thread Sakari Bergen
Googling for C++ books gave this as the first result: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list Based on my readings and what I've heard from others, that is an excellent list. As for online references, cplusplus.com is generally considered low quality, and

Re: [LAD] C++ guide

2014-06-14 Thread Will Godfrey
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:00:57 +0200 immanuel litzroth ilitzr...@gmail.com wrote: This seems to be a good introduction to c++ of manageable size: http://www.amazon.de/A-Tour-C-In-Depth/dp/0321958314/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8qid=1402351177sr=8-3keywords=stroustrup I think it's important to get a recent

Re: [LAD] C++ guide

2014-06-14 Thread immanuel litzroth
This is also recommended: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Keynote Immanuel On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Will Godfrey willgodf...@musically.me.uk wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:00:57 +0200 immanuel litzroth ilitzr...@gmail.com wrote: This seems to be a good

Re: [LAD] C++ guide

2014-06-14 Thread Reuben Martin
On Saturday, June 14, 2014 05:42:07 PM Will Godfrey wrote: Thanks a lot for the suggestions everyone. I thought it best to start with a quick skim through Harry's first suggestion. (Oddly I'd never found that site with search engines). Well I pretty quickly slowed down! There is a lot I'd

[LAD] C++ guide

2014-06-09 Thread Will Godfrey
Can anyone recommend something (preferably dead tree form) aimed at those with some knowledge of the basics? I've dealt with Yoshimi's Surface noise but am struggling with the more serious refactoring I want to do. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a

Re: [LAD] C++ guide

2014-06-09 Thread Harry van Haaren
Hey Will, This really depends: are you asing about refactoring the code-structure (classes, inheritance, is-a vs. has-a owenership etc) or actual code in the sense of stl vectors and refactoring actual useful code as I see it :) For basics of C++ std libs etc, I generally refer to these:

Re: [LAD] C++ guide

2014-06-09 Thread Kaspar Emanuel
If it was for C I would thoroughly recommend Expert C Programming by Peter van der Linden. Lot's of tips and tricks and so thats why... moments and an entertaining read at that (e.g. the interludes with anecdotes about Bugs that crashed spacecrafts). Maybe it would still help with the C parts of

Re: [LAD] C++ guide

2014-06-09 Thread immanuel litzroth
This seems to be a good introduction to c++ of manageable size: http://www.amazon.de/A-Tour-C-In-Depth/dp/0321958314/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8qid=1402351177sr=8-3keywords=stroustrup I think it's important to get a recent book since c++11 and 14 have improved the language a lot. Immanuel On Mon, Jun 9,