Subj : Re: hi there re: Programming books in C,C++ ?
To   : comp.programming
From : Rob Thorpe
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 02:50 pm

Chingy wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I am computer power user and my  hobby is to get all the knowledge I can
> possibbly  get  to learn something I am interested in..
>
> I have obtained, CCNA,MCSE(win2000) from self study and now I wanna move
> onto programming, so which programming language I should learn as an
> absolute beginner. I mainly intrested in C and C++ I heard/read from
> different forums on the internet that these 2 languages are very powerfull.

They are, they're are many other powerful languages though, and many
more powerful languages.  C and C++ are very heavily used though,
especially in games.

> My main goal is to learn the fundamentals and then on my own pace move
> forward in game development/programming.
>
> Some people say C++ is based on C, so should I learn C first before C++ or
> jumping directly to C++ is worth it? Remember I am a Beginner! with no
> previous programming background.

I would recommend learning C first.  C++ contains all of C as a
subset(almost), it also contains a great many other features.  It's
powerful, but extremely complex, there are many different way to do
something in C++.  Many C++ programmers have not learnt whole language
just the parts of it they often use.

> Which book should I get, I tried searching Amazon.com but there are 100's of
> books on this and I am confused to choose whats good for me.

I'm afraid I don't know the best book to read today for learning one of
these languages.

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