* Book recomendation?
@ 2000-02-23 0:00 xl
2000-02-23 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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From: xl @ 2000-02-23 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* Re: Book recomendation?
2000-02-23 0:00 Book recomendation? xl
@ 2000-02-23 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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From: David Botton @ 2000-02-23 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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++?
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* Re: Book recomendation?
2000-02-23 0:00 Book recomendation? xl
2000-02-23 0:00 ` David Botton
@ 2000-02-23 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Dimmick
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From: Geoff Bull @ 2000-02-23 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* Re: Book recomendation?
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
@ 2000-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Dimmick
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
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From: Mike Dimmick @ 2000-03-07 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
"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
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* Re: Book recomendation?
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Dimmick
@ 2000-03-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
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From: Keith Thompson @ 2000-03-07 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
"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.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst>
Welcome to the last year of the 20th century.
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