I read 3 books on dos and what now?

[moshe12007]

Hello!!!

I read 3 c++ books on dos and what now? I think i want now to programming on windows but which language i can programming ?

[jbennet]

What?

Learn C++ using the Win32 API and then you can focus on things like MFC

[nucleon]

I read 3 c++ books on dos

Now that you're a DOS expert, the world is your oyster!

[Salem]

Read some books on programming (independent of a language). You'll need this if you ever want to be more than a glorified "hello world" programmer.

Read some books on C++, independent of the implementation. Learn the language, not an implementation.

Read some books on modern environments, not some DOS fossil.

[nucleon]

To be fair, presumably by "dos" program he meant "console" program. So now he wants to start programming the windows api. "Programming Windows" by Petzold is a good start, but I believe it uses C and not C++.

[NETProgrammer]

Now when you have the basics of programming, you can go for .NET platform? or may be C++ in another case. I have seen a lot of C++ experts out there in DW like Salem, Ancient Dragon. Great guys to learn something from, Cheers!

[mrnutty]

start coding, just because you know theory doesn't mean your good at applying them. So start coding, gitty-up

[mrnutty]

Now when you have the basics of programming, you can go for .NET platform? or may be C++ in another case. I have seen a lot of C++ experts out there in DW like Salem, Ancient Dragon. Great guys to learn something from, Cheers!

No offense to them, but I would say there are like 9 experts in C++ in the whole world, by experts, one who knows the language inside and out, so I wouldn't say they were experts, but rather, knowledgable.

[Aranarth]

There might be more experts than you'd think. On another forum, there is an user who essentially knows the C++ standard by heart. And as far as I know, he is neither part of the C++ standard committee nor is he working for a C++ compiler vendor.
I would expect to find many more people such as him in these two groups.

Even so, one doesn't have to know everything about a subject to get away with calling oneself an expert these days - far from it, in fact (unfortunately).

[invisal]

No offense to them, but I would say there are like 9 experts in C++ in the whole world, by experts, one who knows the language inside and out, so I wouldn't say they were experts, but rather, knowledgable.

It's rather hard to define "C++ experts". Is only knowing the language inside and out enough to be called "C++ experts". Knowing how language work sometimes does not guarantee that they are proficient with the language or they are using the language efficiently.

[mrnutty]

It's rather hard to define "C++ experts". Is only knowing the language inside and out enough to be called "C++ experts". Knowing how language work sometimes does not guarantee that they are proficient with the language or they are using the language efficiently.

ex·pertA person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area.

Thus C++ expert roughly means to me, A person who has a comprehensive and authoritative and full knowledge about C++.

Note that I make no claim that they are expert programmer, but usually, if one is smart enough to master C++ then he is probably a good programmer at the very least.