Visual C++ Learning Help!?

Question

Hi. I'm 14 and I'm learning C++. I've read Ivor Horton's Beginning C++ 2010 and I've been trying to make programs on my own. My question is: How you, programmers got used to it? I'm not talking about the syntax, but about the application itself. I spend hours searching the MSDN library just to solve 1 or 2 out of the 500 problems I find doing an application. Could you recommend me a book? Is Microsoft Visual C++ Windows Applications by Example by Stefan Bjornander a good book for me to read? What tips can you give me about which one to choose: Forms, MFC, Win32API?

P.S.: I'm Brazilian so, please, recommend me a book available at Amazon for download.

Answer 1

This site will have you learning C++ and using it in Visual Studio C++.



http://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/07-a-few-common-cpp-problems/



This is good too.



http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/



That is a big task for your age, C# is much easier. Learning as much as you can about C++ will make learning other things much easier, good luck.

Answer 2

It's natural for things to take a long time when you first start learning to program. It will become much faster and easier as you progress, so don't be discouraged. Age is not a factor, despite what some others say here.



You can learn C++ from a book, but you can also learn it for free from the Web. There are zillions of tutorial and reference sites on the Web. Just look at different ones until you find one that is set up in a style you like. I used to buy lots of books but they are increasingly hard to justify today. I do still have my copy of Windows Programming by Charles Petzold, which is extremely useful if you want to write native Windows applications.



For native Windows stuff, you need to know the Win32 API. MFC and other add-ons are much less important, and they also lock you into the products of a specific company. Learn to build programs in straight C and C++ first, using only the direct calls to the Win32 API, and once you've gotten used to that, you can move on to all the extra stuff if you want (although I still avoid MFC and its ilk even to this day).



Video tutorials are okay, if you're really having trouble with a concept, but they can be very slow ways of learning. It depends on how fast you pick things up.

Answer 3

Go to this youtube channel



www.youtube.com/codingmadeeasy



He teaches c++ tutorials and he uses visual c++ in order to do code so you should learn a lot from him. The IDE really isn't that hard to get used to. Unless you want to get into the advanced stuff but you really don't need all that advanced stuff. That advanced stuff is for professionals and since your'e a beginner then you don't have to worry about them. All you really need to know it how to create a project, write simple code, use the debugger (you won't need this anytime soon) and learn to use the linker (which you also don't need now ... you mainly need the linker for software and game development)



So yea. Watch the tutorials he has ... The series is called C++ Made Easy and you'll see the first video as soon as you go on his channel.



Hope This Helped :D

Answer 4

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