Re: need tutorials or books

[Lionel Pinkhard <lionelp@worldonline.co.za>]

If you think C++ is complex, try learning Forth or Cobol! After having
experience in C, C++, Basic and Assembler, it took me months to figure out
Forth, and I still haven't gotten the grips on Cobol! The reason is
simple: The syntax is totally different, for example, if you know Basic,
it would be easier for you to learn Fortran than C, but if you know C, it
would be easier to learn C++ or Eiffel than a totally different language
like Forth. C++ isn't that hard, really it isn't, it took me less than a
week to learn the basics (after knowing QuickBasic as well). So I've been
in the same position as you (except for the brother, my brother can't even
program, so I have to laugh at him :-) ).

 - Lionel 

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 buyer1342@saladlove.com wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 HusTheBadMan@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > I am a very keen 13 yr old  wannabe programmer who needs c++ tutorials really 
> [snipped]
> > The only books I find talk to me as if I'm a rocket scientist. Please help me 
> > as I'm currently making games which are being laughed at (Doh!!) by my 
> > brother who says they are unbelievably crap.Thanks
> > Huseyin
> 
> Firt thought that comes to mind... keep programming and working hard at
> your game development and programming skills. Years later when you are
> successful, you can return the favour to your brother. ^_-
> 
> As for C/C++, go for the beginning C/C++ texts. While the quality of the
> 21 day or Dummy series books are rather shallow, they can give you the
> basics to the language before you head on to the more... hefty books.
> 
> Part of the reason why it appears to be written in a complex manner is
> because the differences between C/C++ and QBasic is quite
> large. ^_^;; Just keep at it and the non-human language will slowly become
> more and more human to you. No time like when your brain cells are still
> young to start absorbing this info, right? ^_-
> 
> Wing.
> 
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