Re: Linux or windows
On Dec 19, 12:01 am, "Ron AF Greve" <me@localhost> wrote:
"Abhi" <meetabh...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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this is not a technical c++ questions , but as a C++ learner
i was just wondering which of the operating system
environment , Linux or Windows is good for learning C++, in
terms of the depth in understanding of language one can
achieve
As others pointed out whether MS-Windows or Linux doesn't
really matter. If you use Visual C++
(http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc/)you also have to spend
some time getting acquainted with the IDE. It is well worth
the effort thpugh.
Yes and no. Sooner or later, he'll have to work without it. On
the other hand, the advantage of the IDE is that you don't have
to learn it; you can more or less just use it. So you don't
have to cope with learning everything at one: makefiles, command
line syntax, C++, etc., and can learn one thing at a time.
Just switched from my payed 2003 version to the free 2008
version and I am pretty impressed how you can debug structures
vectors arrays etc. When you are learning, this also might
help alot with seeing what is going on.
Note that if you use VC it will generate some code for a basis
windows app for you. However if you want to not dive (directly
in to MS-Windows) you can just add your code to WinMain and do
a 'PostMessage( hWnd, WM_QUIT, 0, 0 );' just before entering
the message loop.
If you use linux you can start directly with your favorite
editor (mine still being vi ). If projects become larger than
one file you probably have to learn how to make a Makefile,
how to set library paths etc. (VC++ does all that stuff more
or less automatically).
VC++ doesn't. The IDE that surrounds it does. Which is exactly
my point. You'd never want to use anything like that on a
professional project, but I suspect that it would help greatly
when learning.
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