Book recomendation?

Book recomendation?

[xl]

Could someone please suggest a good book which will help me make the
transition from ADA95 to C++?  I know next to zero about C++ since ADA
has been the only language I've actively used.

I'm tempted to buy

Ada 95 for C and C ++ Programmers (International Computer Science
Series) 
                 by Simon Johnston 

but this sounds like the wrong "direction" if you know what I mean.

Thanks,

Robert

Re: Book recomendation?

[David Botton]

That is not called a transition, that is called a slip.

Friend don't let Friends derive drunk :-)
This is comp.lang.ada.

David Botton


xl@home.com wrote in message <38B33C82.2356E40F@home.com>...
>Could someone please suggest a good book which will help me make the
>transition from ADA95 to C++?

Re: Book recomendation?

[Geoff Bull]

xl@home.com wrote:
> 
> Could someone please suggest a good book which will help me make the
> transition from ADA95 to C++? 

You'll need this:
Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger for GDB version 4.18 
by Richard M. Stallman, Cygnus Solutions 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1882114760/qid=951275334/sr=1-1/002-0579459-8422652

and

The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201889544/qid=951275567/sr=1-2/002-0579459-8422652


Cheers
Geoff

Re: Book recomendation?

[Mike Dimmick]

"Geoff Bull" <geoff@research.canon.com.au> wrote in message
news:38B3513C.1F0150EA@research.canon.com.au...
> xl@home.com wrote:
> >
> > Could someone please suggest a good book which will help me make the
> > transition from ADA95 to C++?
>
> You'll need this:
> Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger for GDB version 4.18
> by Richard M. Stallman, Cygnus Solutions
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1882114760/qid=951275334/sr=1-1/0
02-0579459-8422652
>
> and
>
> The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201889544/qid=951275567/sr=1-2/0
02-0579459-8422652

I'd also like to recommend the books:

Effective C++, 2nd Ed (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-92488-9)
More Effective C++ (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63371-X)
both by Scott Meyers.

These books really teach you how to use C++ properly.  Anyone who
dismisses C++ out of hand should read these books.

For an example of how to do it badly, read MFC Internals
(0-201-40721-3).  Good framework, good algorithms, poor style.

If you do get Stroustrup, make sure it's the latest edition, as earlier
versions didn't cover Standard C++.  A heck of a lot of changes were
made to the standard before it was finalised.

--
Mike Dimmick

Re: Book recomendation?

[Keith Thompson]

"Mike Dimmick" <mike@dimmick.demon.co.uk> writes:
[...]
> If you do get Stroustrup, make sure it's the latest edition, as earlier
> versions didn't cover Standard C++.  A heck of a lot of changes were
> made to the standard before it was finalised.

The latest edition is the third, BTW.

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