The link in the above post (see parent) seems to be broken for me. I don't know if this happens to be the same book as the one above...
This is the book that my Survey of Programming Languages professor suggested for those of us who came in knowing Java but not C++.
It's nice in that it compares and contrasts many features of both languages (including quite a bit on the STL and writing templates in C++), but I found myself wishing it would have gone into more detail several times - my one gripe is that it doesn't do much more than scratch the surface in several instances.
(apparently, there's at least a couple of "C++ for Java Programmers" books on amazon alone...)
A couple of reference sites I've used in the past:
The article wasn't aimed at you. It was aimed at the general public. It was fairly balanced and described the good, the bad, and the ugly of IRC.
This is a good point, but I'll debate the "fairly balanced" for two reasons:
(1), as you sort of pointed out, it's much easier to get caught up in the "bad" than it is to notice the "good" in this article.
(2), couple #1 with the fact that "the general public" tend to be paranoid when it comes to computer stuff that they don't know diddly squat about, and suddenly this article is yet another case of FUDSI.
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The link in the above post (see parent) seems to be broken for me. I don't know if this happens to be the same book as the one above...
This is the book that my Survey of Programming Languages professor suggested for those of us who came in knowing Java but not C++.
It's nice in that it compares and contrasts many features of both languages (including quite a bit on the STL and writing templates in C++), but I found myself wishing it would have gone into more detail several times - my one gripe is that it doesn't do much more than scratch the surface in several instances.
(apparently, there's at least a couple of "C++ for Java Programmers" books on amazon alone...)
A couple of reference sites I've used in the past:
C/C++ Reference
C++ Library Reference
(Personally, I still shy away from C++ whenever I can...I certainly haven't gotten a comfortably firm grip on it yet.)
When its working correctly its male. When it wont do what its suppose to its female.
Corollary: when it doesn't know what the heck it's supposed to do, but it pulls something out of its /dev/random and does that anyway: it's male.
The article wasn't aimed at you. It was aimed at the general public. It was fairly balanced and described the good, the bad, and the ugly of IRC.
This is a good point, but I'll debate the "fairly balanced" for two reasons:
(1), as you sort of pointed out, it's much easier to get caught up in the "bad" than it is to notice the "good" in this article.
(2), couple #1 with the fact that "the general public" tend to be paranoid when it comes to computer stuff that they don't know diddly squat about, and suddenly this article is yet another case of FUDSI.
Gee, at that rate I suppose they expect light bulbs to have internet connections as well...