Re: [Dev-C++] newbie questions without answer

[Carlos d. M. <cg...@wo...>]

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> Just for the record, i do not like the approach you are using, it is
> too C-style.
>
> Agree, with such things is better use classes and so, always use C++.
> If you want, at first times you can start from structs if that helps
> you, and then pass to classes. But the best is practice classes, and
> practice and practice... And don't kill your computer.
>
> What kind of abnormal termination. assert()?
>
> The assert of the overloaded [].
> I must mention that C++ provides already a string type defined in
> <string>. So why do you bother? :)
>
> Just an example of the book with which Mr Senen is working for learn
> (C/)C++. Which has a part that although being C++ shows C things, this
> is used for introduce the reader to objects, overloading and such
> things. It is almost the "How to Program C/C++" (same authors) with
> tiny modifications because the title says it is more oriented to C++.
> But the truth is that there is only one book, but they make three
> parts: about 20 pages of only C for the "how to C/C++", 20 for "C++
> how to" and about 1200 for both. A way to sell two books when they
> have only one, in essence. This book is which I found better for learn
> programming (but I couldn't find many), and well, it seems I'm
> learning, but with no few errors (I mean I have more than few errors),
> I got the spanish translation (as said in a previous message)
> translated by someone which should go to first course to learn
> speaking, and perhaps due to his translation or the original, I found
> it has some ambiguities, and misleading things. They don't pay enough
> attention to a couple of pointer things, and the treatment of bitwise
> operation is misleading: they say something like "usually these
> operations are performed over ints and chars", but it is not exact,
> because it makes think that it usually is used with such vars, but
> could be used with doubles, longs... and not, they only work with ints
> and chars, they must be used with ints and chars. Just like saying
> "people usually flies with planes or helicopters", usually?, try to
> fly yourself with a red cape, and then tell me if the word is only
> usually. And in the "how to C/C++" the teaching of memory allocation
> is awful (the C functions there, malloc, calloc, realloc and free), it
> sem harder than quantum physics but is easier than 2+2 (or perhaps my
> english is the cause).
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