Re: Book suggestion - Visual C++ 2005

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"Armand Collin" wrote:
I am looking for a book or training material to learn C++ - managed and unmanaged, I have some experience with other languages like C# and Visual Basic, but I'd like to start in C++ from the scratch.

"Learning OO/C++" (not managed)
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/how-to-learn-cpp.html

Most of them seems to me not suitable for Visual C++ (Windows) development, maybe they cover the basics of the language and further I will have to buy another book specifically for Windows.

Developing for Windows is a vast topic. It depends on which part of Windows you're interested in and which technologies you intend to use. Most readers of this group practise native Windows programming. I.e., programming in languages that are translated into native binary code for given platform. I reckon that most of them use some kind of C++ library/framework in everyday job instead of direct programing against Windows API. However, in order to program for Windows efficiently you should be acquaint with Windows API programming quite well.

The common consensus is that Charles Petzold's "Programming Windows", 5th Ed. (
http://www.charlespetzold.com/pw5/index.html) is irreplaceable textbook for Windows programming. It should be your first book as Windows programmer (regardless of programming language). Then you should read Jeffrey Richter's "Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows (http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/2345.aspx). It discusses Windows programming in greater depth than Petzold's book and, IMHO, is crucial for anyone who intends to write something more complex than Calculator or Notepad.

Currently, aforementioned authors concentrate primarily on managed programming and don't publish any native programming books.

I don't know much about .NET literature, since I never learned it by book.

HTH
Alex

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