Re: Programming Tomes was [Dev-C++] Question of the day

[Matthew H. <mhi...@ko...>]

Hello,
      Yes you are right, I checked my book again, \a and \b are very =
close together, it was my mistake. I am using the book Object-Oriented =
Programming in C++ Second Edition, it's quite old (Copyright 1995) I got =
it for $9 at a used bookstore : )
I love those kind! 8-)

I pick up just about everything I find.  I figure, some are good, some =
are definitely not; however, they all look at things from different =
perspectives, and sometimes something that's greek in one book is clear =
as day in another.  (Even if some of those books start to look a little =
long in the tooth!)

Recently (on another list) a war started over the value of books (ie. =
the 21 Days compared to college / university texts).  I agree that some =
of the 21 Day/Dummies/Idiot's guides are surface material, I find them =
helpful when I want to check out a topic.  I then start to delve a =
little deeper, and then I look for resources online (about language =
style, the ins and outs of a language, etc.).

Speaking of which, does anybody have any good links to C++ related =
material?  Particularly good object-oriented source...  I've poked =
around, but most of what I find seems to relate to DOS level C =
graphics/demo programming. =20

My background is rather VB, and sources that I've found nice are things =
like www.planetsourcecode.com
(They've got some stuff for other languages, but nothing "meaty" ... for =
an example, check out the Delphi section!)

Matthew Hickson