[Sussex] Linux IDE's

[Paul Turner]

Geoffrey Teale wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 00:46 +0100, Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
>  
>
>No!  Sure you can printf, but "NO!" and I repeat "NO!".
>
>If you walk away from a C++ book and your first instinct is to go:
>
>  printf("Foo %s\n", bar);
>
>.. instead of:
>
>  std::cout << "Foo " << bar << std::endl;
>
>..then you should go and read another book or be prepared to justify
>this usage very strongly when you come to an interview.  This is a very
>trivial example of the problem I'm talking about.  It's not that printf
>is inherently bad, it's just that it's not the way C++ programmers
>should think.  BTW, if your justification for using the C style was that
>it's shorter then, sorry, you don't get the job.
>  
>

I'd recomend:

Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example
By: Andrew Koenig, Barbara E. Moo
*ISBN:* 020170353X

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/020170353X/026-6130070-5563669?%5Fencoding=UTF8

P.


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