Re: [Dev-C++] classes and references

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Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> But he explicitly mentions that the 3 first chapters are a quick tour of the
> language and he explicitly mentions that everything will become clear later.
> The learning process begins from chapter 4.

For example: templates are first *used* in the 3rd chapter
(___*****and from then continuously*****___, i.e. in the 4th and 5th and 
so on) and described in the 12th...
This caused me a lot of headache, he used it a lot of times, and I had 
absolutely no idea what hell is vector<xxx> for example...

> I do not like it too, but it is what it takes to become a good programmer.
> That said you do  not need to know all the features provided by C++ to do
> programs, but it takes years to learn it all (assuming you also have other
> things to do daily).

Well, that is called _experience_. I think it is way different from 
knowing, what a code part from another project does...

> I shall say that I will have a good knowledge of C++ after I have finished
> the book inclduing the appendices. :)

No. Then you will have absolute knowledge. A C++ guru in other words. :)

> Well it is aimed towards itermediate programmers. However my belief is that
> every programmmer of C++ should have read this book.

Yes, *should have*...

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Greets,
   Balázs