Hi there!
Sorry if i put this in the wrong forum, couldn't find a more appropriate one. Also sorry if this question has already been asked.
I know some early basics of C++ like writing a simple command line calculator or various if, while statements but I don't understand some of them completely. It is very important to me to absolutely know why "this is the way it is". I am (at least i think so) not acomplete newbie at this so I really don't need a book which explains how to make a "Hello World!" program on 3 pages. But i really want a straight forward book which explains every bit of info about things used in the Hello World program (just an example). To make this a little more clearer - almost every book starts with a very simple program which has int main() in it. But I have yet to find a one which explains why you have to type int before main. Some evern start with void main() but they tell you 50 pages further that void main() should actually be int main(). Some books cover this kind of info later on in the book, but this is (in my opinion) disturbing because you start with something and just type whatever is in the book and read through 100 pages but you don't even know exactly why it's there. It's almost like keeping this info away from the reader while I think that the reader should be comfortable with everything he's working on.
I hope you understand what I mean. In my ideal world I would have Bjarne Strousrup sitting near me and explaining me why exactly do I have to do this and that
I've read quite a bit of that "Learn C++ in 21 days" ebook (not that good if you ask me) and some 2 or three others but i don't want to go any further untill I am completely satisfied with my learning. The best I found till now is "How to think like a computer scientist - C++" but it lacks some stuff.
I hope I make any sense if not I will try to explain it in some other way.
btw: I prefer if the book is ~5 years old at most. But it's not a requierment.
Thanks!
edit: I asked about C# in another thread - I have decided to learn C++ first because the school I'm will be going to has classes only for C++ and learning 2 languages at the same time is a little too much for me atm.
Sorry if i put this in the wrong forum, couldn't find a more appropriate one. Also sorry if this question has already been asked.
I know some early basics of C++ like writing a simple command line calculator or various if, while statements but I don't understand some of them completely. It is very important to me to absolutely know why "this is the way it is". I am (at least i think so) not acomplete newbie at this so I really don't need a book which explains how to make a "Hello World!" program on 3 pages. But i really want a straight forward book which explains every bit of info about things used in the Hello World program (just an example). To make this a little more clearer - almost every book starts with a very simple program which has int main() in it. But I have yet to find a one which explains why you have to type int before main. Some evern start with void main() but they tell you 50 pages further that void main() should actually be int main(). Some books cover this kind of info later on in the book, but this is (in my opinion) disturbing because you start with something and just type whatever is in the book and read through 100 pages but you don't even know exactly why it's there. It's almost like keeping this info away from the reader while I think that the reader should be comfortable with everything he's working on.
I hope you understand what I mean. In my ideal world I would have Bjarne Strousrup sitting near me and explaining me why exactly do I have to do this and that
I've read quite a bit of that "Learn C++ in 21 days" ebook (not that good if you ask me) and some 2 or three others but i don't want to go any further untill I am completely satisfied with my learning. The best I found till now is "How to think like a computer scientist - C++" but it lacks some stuff.
I hope I make any sense if not I will try to explain it in some other way.
btw: I prefer if the book is ~5 years old at most. But it's not a requierment.
Thanks!
edit: I asked about C# in another thread - I have decided to learn C++ first because the school I'm will be going to has classes only for C++ and learning 2 languages at the same time is a little too much for me atm.
