Re: Whats the best book for a beginner

From: Dave Moore (dtmoore_at_rijnh.nl)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: 27 Apr 2004 06:38:28 -0700

Panama Red <complaintdepartment2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<c621m1-f6h.ln1@ralph.homelinux.net>...
> I would like to learn to program in c++ on Linux and AIX
> systems...mainly socket and fifo type stuff. Can someone
> recommend a book for someone with experience only with
> Perl, shell, and Pick/Basic ?
>
> Thanks

There is a book from O'Reilly called something like "C++ for Embedded
systems", which is probably specific to the types of problems you want
to solve. However not having read it myself, I cannot really
recommend it .. only make you aware of its existence 8*).

For a general introduction to C++, I used "Practical C++ Programming"
(also from O'Reilly) by Steve Oualline ... it is woefully out of date
now, and predates the ISO C++ Standard, but it still IMO gives a good
introduction to the basics. It promotes a "walk-before-you-run"
philosophy and gives lots of clear explanation and general advice for
good programming practices. Also, there may be a more up-to-date book
from the same author.

Finally, FWIW I must say that I have never bought a book from O'Reilly
that I haven't found useful (usually extremely so), so if they now
have a book titled, "Learning C++", I would probably look hard at that
one.

HTH, Dave Moore

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