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What do you guys (or gals) think about http://www.cprogramming.com/? Is is a good place to learn C++ (and C) or not? How about ? Please send me your response.

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This thread raises the familiar trade-off between structured tutorials and message-board advice. Posters such as asked whether that long-running tutorial site is a good learning place; praised its educational material while noted the usual variability in forum answers. The useful takeaway is procedural: treat tutorial pages as guided lessons, but pair them with authoritative references and deliberate, hands‑on practice.

Prioritize resources that explicitly reflect modern C++ (C++11 and later) and that label which standard their examples target. The language and standard library changed substantially after C++98, so tutorials that don’t distinguish standards can teach outdated idioms. The Standard C++ community site and up-to-date reference wikis are reliable places to check language evolution and library details. (isocpp.org)

For step‑by‑step learning, a maintained, free tutorial site provides clear chapters and exercises; for the C language, the classic textbook remains the canonical reference for fundamentals. Use tutorials for progression and books/reference sites for precise definitions and edge cases. (learncpp.com)

Adopt a practical workflow: implement small projects that force use of core language features; build with strict warnings; run sanitizers and static analysis to surface memory and undefined‑behavior bugs early; and consult the standard/reference when behavior is surprising. Modern compilers include AddressSanitizer and related tools that make finding memory errors far simpler during development. (clang.llvm.org)

Combine what forum answers offer (examples, shortcuts, motivation) with solid references and tooling. That mix gives the best path from tutorial material to reliable, maintainable C/C++ code.

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>What do you guys (or gals) think about http://www.cprogramming.com/?
It's a really well-made site that is an excellent resource for C/C++.

[edit] Although I do believe they've been experiencing technical difficulties lately, such as SQL errors. Also, thier board had a terrible crash the other day, and they lost over a month's-worth of posts because they hadn't backed up the server. [/edit]

>Is is a good place to learn C++ (and C) or not?
An excellent place to start learning. They also have a message board of their own, so you can ask questions about the tutorials, or about C/C++ in general.

>How about ?
It seems a little too brief, although that could be just me.

If you want more resources for learning C/C++, check out these stickies:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread50370.html
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread70096.html

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moved

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There are some people there who respond to a lot of posts without really knowing or understanding anything. There are a lot of people who do that here. That's okay; just pay attention whenever Bubba or Prelude or Salem or Dave Sinkula or Mad_Guy say anything. And machines like quzah are great. There are several real idiots, though, who say things that come from their own imaginary self-orbiting world. I might be one of them.

I just get really tired at their inane conversations.

So yes, it's a good site. At least morally. I don't know if it's the best. Some places know C better.

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>There are some people there who respond to a lot of posts without really knowing or understanding anything.
Is that different from other forums? You're going to have stupid people around in any situation, whether it be real-life, or just on the Internet...

>There are several real idiots, though, who say things that come from their own imaginary self-orbiting world.
You must be referring to me. I honestly think that they hate me over there at CBoard (except for maybe twomers and dwks), so I only pop in once in a while to offer some advice to newbies.

>I might be one of them.
Nah, you're not one of them. I know that.

>I just get really tired at their inane conversations.
One thing that really gets me is how fast they can get off-topic in a thread. A thread that's more than a couple of pages has already gone off-topic. You just know it before you even bother looking. And if it's a popular topic, it means it will get closed because it will gets into the er... unmentionables ;)

I especially like the main part of the site, which is far more educational (in my opinion) than the message board. That's where all the bored programmers hang out.

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didnt you used to be a mod at cboard, joeprogrammer?

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didnt you used to be a mod at cboard, joeprogrammer?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! ROFL....

No way man, not even a chance...

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maybe that was someone else... oh well... (my memory is really bad :))

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I'm definitely not referring to you joeprogrammer.

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>I'm definitely not referring to you joeprogrammer.
Are you so sure? Have you seen my posts? They're awful!

For some reason they seem to improve dramatically at DaniWeb. Either that or the expertise of the posters is lower here. ;)

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Heh really an interesting thread...From a "beginner asking for advice" to "I will definately take revenge"...Oh, what has this world come to... :D

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revenge on beginners or revenge of the beginners?

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Revenge of ex-mod... :D

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>Revenge of ex-mod...
Which is who...?

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