noticed some one mentioned about Sams teach yourself c++ in 10 minutes, just wondering why no body recommend its cousin:

Sams teach yourself c++ in 21 days by the same author: Jesse Liberty

a...

Does the system ("cls") method work in windows 2k, because in my memory, "cls" is a DOS command and win 2k is not built on DOS.

Problem is when i tried both ways in Visual C++, neither of the methods worked, in both cases, the compiler told me there is no such an include file. Instead, i found a function "mkdir (const char*)"...

Say, if i want to learn Visual C++ MFC programming, what books would you recommend?

I created a program that uses a friend function to access the private member variabls, it runs perfectly in Shedblood Dev-C++, but when i use Microsoft Visual C++ 6 to compile it, the compiler tell...

I've ever created such a program, but i'm not sure if i've deleted it. I created it with a couple of switch statements that convert single digits into words. This is quite tedious, but i really can't...

I'm looking for books that deal with more advanced topics and programming tips.

Hello, i'm a novice who have some ideas of the basic concepts and some advanced topics like templates and exception handling. I now want to improve my programming skills.

I would very appreciate...

Thanks for the answers, i can solve my problem now. But i got another question regarding arrays. I tried to make an array of c-style strings with the following code, but got an error:

int main ()...

How can i create a directory in c++ other than writing
system ("md directory");

I wanna create an array whose size would be determined by a variable, but i when i write the following, i got an error

int main ()
{
int a;
std::cin >> a;
int intArray [a];

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There used to be a a clrscr () function in conio.h include file which clears the screen, but this function is not in the conio.h file in visual C++ 6. How can i clear the screen without clrscr()?