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C++ Language Quick Guide
- GhostVII 9y agoDoes this guide have anything about references? Didn't find anything about that, but maybe I missed it, I think its a pretty important topic to cover. Also didn't see anything about the different types of constructors.
- bstamour 9y agoPlease update the section on storage classes. Auto is no longer a storage class, but a keyword for automatic type deduction. Also, register has recently been deprecated as well, if I remember correctly.
- Impossible 9y agoThis appears to be a C++03 guide, as it doesn't mention any C++11 features (no range based for). To be fair it is definitely a "quick" guide, and doesn't cover enough to actually be productive in C++ (pointers\memory allocation and references are missing...), but you're right that auto and register are the only things that appear to be explicitly wrong, instead of wrong by omission.
- stinos 9y agodoesn't cover enough to actually be productive Well probably it would be sufficient to write simple programs. But maybe this guide is just too quick in that it just covers some basic syntax but leaves out a lot of goodies which actual programs use (no containers/algorithms at all, indeed no C++11 and beyond which is imo a shame for any recent C++ guide - there's not even any mentioning of it), doesn't adhere to current best practices (take 'double getVolume(void)': void argument has no place in C++ and should arguably be const, no error checking on stream methods) and seems too lack crucial information (no mention of heder files, no mention of how to get the samples compiled).
- lomnakkus 9y agoIndeed, this is an awful "guide". EDIT: ... because a) it's extremely outdated, and b) it doesn't even give you the basics.
- copperx 9y agoI just want to point out that Stroustrup's A Tour Of C++ is an excellent quick guide and it does include C++11 features.
- bstamour 9y agoI've found the C++ Standard Library 2nd Edition to be an excellent companion to Stroustrup's Tour of C++. It does a good job of preventing you from reinventing wheels that others have already built for you.
- dotdi 9y agoCall me nitpicky, but you lost me at `Box Box1;` Instance names should be lowercase, for God's sake.
- minipci1321 9y ago> C++ is a superset of C, and that virtually any legal C program is a legal C++ program. This is not true. One example, void* pointers are not automatically converted to "narrower" types in C++ as they are in C.
- EpicEng 9y ago>"virtually" There are differences, but they are few and far between.
- minipci1321 9y agoThat does disqualify C++ as the __superset__ of C doesn't it?
- saghm 9y agoSyntactically, C++ is a superset of C though, right? I can't think of any C syntax that's not valid C++, but I'm not exactly am expert in either
- minipci1321 9y ago> I can't think of any C syntax that's not valid C++, enum toto { a = 1 }; enum toto b = 1; Fixing versions of both standards could bring in more examples (like trailing comma in enums and use of the names reserved in C++, by the C code). Overall, ironically, as typing is stronger in C++ (which I agree is a non-syntactic change), poor C code (using lots of unjustified casts), will require less modifications to be compiled as C++.
- Cieplak 9y agoAnother cool resource: https://github.com/rigtorp/awesome-modern-cpp https://github.com/rigtorp/awesome-modern-cpp
- blt 9y agoThis looks more like an exam review study guide than an attempt to teach the language.
- PopsiclePete 9y agoThis is kind of ... crappy. Sorry. It might have been semi-useful in 2004 or so, but now...woefully outdated and inadequate to get anyone up-to-speed. I'd say it's actually harmful.
- alexeiz 9y agoThis guide is so primitive that it cannot be called useful. It can possibly be harmful, though, to those who don't know the language well and use this guide as a sole source of information.