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Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user?

From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user?
Date 2011-12-20 20:41 +0000
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On 2011-12-20, Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> wrote:
> On 2011-12-20, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>> Would anybody care to recommend online C++ resources for a long
>> time C and Python user?  (I'm also familiar with Smalltalk,
>> Scheme, FORTRAN, bash, Javascript, and a variety of assembly
>> languages.)
>
> The best book I know of to get you writing useful C++ quickly is
> Accelerated C++ by Koenig/Moo. It's not free online, though. It
> starts with an excellent introduction to using the STL and works
> it's way slowly down the abstraction ladder to using pointers and
> inheritance last of all.

Oops. I should have mentioned this is for embedded systems programming
so templates in general (and STL in particular) are probably off the
table.

> Iterators turn out to be an excellent starting point for learning
> pointers, though since you already know C that won't do you as
> much good.

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! Boy, am I glad it's
                                  at               only 1971...
                              gmail.com            

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[OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-20 17:40 +0000
  Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-12-20 18:36 +0000
    Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-20 20:41 +0000
      Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-12-20 13:00 -0800
        Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-12-21 14:04 +0000
          Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-12-21 09:26 -0500
          Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-21 15:37 +0000
            Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-12-21 16:16 +0000
              Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-21 21:02 +0000
                Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-12-21 13:15 -0800
                Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-12-21 20:02 -0500
                Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-12-22 13:19 +0000
  Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-12-20 11:43 -0800
  Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-20 20:51 +0000
    Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-12-20 13:06 -0800

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