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I agree; sometimes you have to start somewhere. Then come back and improve knowledge. Trying to be a theoretical expert early on will bite you

• danieldk 12y ago
  The thing is that most of the things that your parent mentions are not just some theory. Exceptions, templates, and the C preprocessor are used in most real-life C++ code. I think starting from somewhere with modern C++ means not starting at C strings, arrays, and bare pointers but starting with STL containers, STL algorithms, and smart pointers etc. to build good habits. But eventually any good introduction has to cover C arrays etc. as well. Back when I started C++, Accelerated C++ was that sort of introduction. But AFAIK it's not updated for C++ 11 or 14.
  • throwawayaway 12y ago
    I agree that picking a subset is the way to go. Google avoid two out of the three i mentioned that you take issue with avoiding. Places I have worked the code is divided into libraries and coding standards per library are different to the whole. The point is to lazily learn the part that the codebase you are working on uses and get cracking rather than waste time getting book smart on parts you may never use.