Learning to use Microsoft Visual C++

[Ion Zone]

Most of the guys on this forum would say that a coin flip would be either 0 or 1, which by the way is the basics of the binary system that will be an integral part of those C++ books for beginners.

Most guys on this forum know how to code. I don't. If you can learn from a book that has fewer examples than chapters, great. I can't do that. I need to be shown how to do things.

A quick google search only turns up your own post.

Its this one. Don't bother though, it's pretty crap.

Have a look at Accelerated C++ by Koenig and Moo.

Thanks, that's all I really wanted! Looks really good.

So do you want a practical book or one that deals with all the basics? IMO they don't mix, at least not in the same book.

They do mix! You can learn more from one good demonstration than fifty pages of dry meandering. (Wait, are you saying the book you recommended isn't practical?)

So what's stopping you from practising?

I haven't got anything to practice with. I don't know enough about C++ to do that.

and you just skipped through the boring part of learning C++ basics

I never said it was boring. I like coding. (I made it through David\Leigh Eddings book once, so I have a high threshold.) But anyway, that method won't work, there's no real Zen moment when you are staring at half a mile of brackets.