People... Can you guys put WHICH book you used...?
Originally Posted by why06
Wow o.o very indepthed (spelling fail...) Thanks a lot for the info, I'll be sure to use your idea on finding a book, but hopefully I'll actually have money to buy one...
Originally Posted by whit
Can you tell me what book you used? Because you seem to be one of the pro coders in my views :P
Originally Posted by why06
Everyone likes different books. Read some reviews on Amazon and pick the one you like the most, then skim through it before buying it. If you don't like the authors style don't get it. I went to the local book store and spent 30min looking through books and hours before and after reading reviews on Amazon before going back and buying Herbert Schildt's C++: A Beginners Guide. I like the book, it's concise and only teaches you the fundamentals of the language. That was fine with me. Later I went back and found a book on DirectX and game programming and that introduced me to the Windows API and DirectX.
However my knowledge is a little fragmented and I plan to go back and relearn plenty of concepts in-depth, but I only learned what I needed to to get to the next step. Now I have a pretty good understanding of basic C++, crappy @ WinAPI, a crappy understanding of DirectX, a beginning to be okay understanding of reverse engineering. Ultimately I ended up with a wide range of focus after about 1.5 years of studying, but it's enough to get by on most subjects and has allowed me to focus more on RE, which is my passion.
Other people go for bigger books that are way more comprehensive. People learn different ways, you have to learn the way that's best for you, but I agree with Void that practice is essentially. The most important thing to learn is all the little stuff you won't find in any book. Theory and main ideas help, but you don't get a feel for programming in a language till you have to deal with the hundred little other things, like setting up a compiler, finding mistakes in your code, looking up stuff on msdn, and all that.
However my knowledge is a little fragmented and I plan to go back and relearn plenty of concepts in-depth, but I only learned what I needed to to get to the next step. Now I have a pretty good understanding of basic C++, crappy @ WinAPI, a crappy understanding of DirectX, a beginning to be okay understanding of reverse engineering. Ultimately I ended up with a wide range of focus after about 1.5 years of studying, but it's enough to get by on most subjects and has allowed me to focus more on RE, which is my passion.
Other people go for bigger books that are way more comprehensive. People learn different ways, you have to learn the way that's best for you, but I agree with Void that practice is essentially. The most important thing to learn is all the little stuff you won't find in any book. Theory and main ideas help, but you don't get a feel for programming in a language till you have to deal with the hundred little other things, like setting up a compiler, finding mistakes in your code, looking up stuff on msdn, and all that.
Originally Posted by whit
i Read a Book but i Skimmed though LearnCPP.com and the information looks right from my eyes
Well, only Limits and Continuity, Derivatives are pretty chill.