Re: [Dev-C++] Dev-cpp Book

[Chris M. <lor...@gm...>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Eric <eri...@wo...> wrote:
> When I see these books with "games" in the title it puts me off, is it for
>  "games programmers or for real programmers

It was very well written, and has many code examples of what real
working C and C++ actually looks like.  I enjoyed it.

>  A bit like the "books for dummies" series, um how can dummies learn, and is
>  it that basic like for the people with the IQ of 50
>  dont buy them you will think you are a dummie

I too am leery of dummies books.  A long long time ago I was the
unfortunate recipient of a C++ for dummies book which spent around 50
pages on core language features and then 150 pages on arrays and
pointers.

No wonder it took me three years and a computer science class with a
real live teacher to figure out how to construct a working loop and
if-statement!  In addition the author's grammar (English) was all
wrong.  It was a dot-com book aimed for people who landed a job
programming, yet have no clue what it is.  Some of the more recent
ones are better.  Anything from the 90's I'd stay away from though.

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