Re: who read what c++ books and best learning practices?
Paul Floyd wrote:
On 8 May 2006 15:37:06 -0400, puzzlecracker
<ironsel2000@gmail.com> wrote:
Large Scale design in C++
This is an interesting book, but I have two comments on it. a)
Moore's law has arguably rendered some of the things that were
problems 10 years ago insignificant today
I'm not sure about that. Moore's law does mean that it takes a
lot less time to compile the same program. In practice,
however, our programs have become bigger at the same speed
machine performance has improved; the relationship between the
two hasn't changed that much.
and b) the code is
old and probably won't compile on any of today's compilers.
The actual code was never the important thing in this book; how
you organize it was, and that hasn't changed that much. (The
increasing use of templates and the absense of export in most
compilers have actually made many of the problems worse.)
[...]
Lastly, I'd also consider some books that are not necessarily
C++ oriented, covering things like design, project management,
debug, build tools, testing, documentation. A book like 'The
Pragmatic Programmer' would be a good starting place for that
direction.
I'd second that. Once you start really programming, the
language is just a small part of the whole. (But I'm not
familiar with the book you cite.)
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