Quote:Original post by korsen

Quote:Original post by daviangel
Do yourself a favor and get the Mike Dawson C++ book if you are new to C++ and just starting out.
I also tried learning C++ from that book before I knew any better and spent 1/2 my time trying to get the code in that book to compile.
It was written with VC++ 6 from what I remember so it doesn't even follow the new for loop scope rules.
I could go dig up my copy and look to see if I wrote down any notes on how to fix the errors but I'm eating right now.

I found these two books:
This is from 2004
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-C%2B%2B-Game-Programming-Development/dp/1592002056/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206334835&sr=1-8
This is from Dec 2005 (so basically 2006)
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Express-Programming-Absolute-Beginner/dp/159200816X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206334983&sr=1-2

would either be a good pick? if not, does anyone have excellent suggestions for something that's not anymore dry than the sahara? i really liked this book till it started giving me trouble.

I noticed the book i'm using is from 2000 :(

Yup! the first one is good. It's the same Dawson book I mentioned above.
It covers all the C++ basics you'll need as a beginner and is not dry/dull/boring like 99% of other recommended books.

[Edited by - daviangel on March 24, 2008 11:42:32 PM]

I just copied "test.cpp" into a new project and it compiled fine with Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition. I would recommend creating a completely new project and just using that file. Make sure you include <string> or cout wont understand how to print strings out to the console.

Sometimes books can be a little confusing about the changes made to the code. A lot of the time though, they include CDs with the code from the book on them. If there is one try to find the code he uses from this chapter. I would guess that he was trying to move the definition of Bow out of test.cpp into their own files to show you some organization techniques.