C++ related questions (how to.s) where to look?

[Hobbyit]

I'm new to the forum and looking to discuss programming issues. If this is the wrong foru.m I need to know

[Hoser Rob]

If you're new to programming C/C++ is one of the worst languages to start with. It's not even a high level language, more a high level assembler, and just knowing the syntax isn't going to help you as much as you may think. At the local univ. they never teach it in 1st year courses. Better to start with pyhton or perl.

[AndyMH]

I wouldn't touch perl - got a book on it and decided it wasn't for me. Python would be a better, more mainstream choice. Me - I'm niche, I use pascal, has an excellent ide in lazarus.

[TD15]

If you're new to programming C/C++ is one of the worst languages to start with. It's not even a high level language, more a high level assembler, and just knowing the syntax isn't going to help you as much as you may think. At the local univ. they never teach it in 1st year courses. Better to start with pyhton or perl.

We start in first year uni learning C, for 3 semesters straight. At first it was hard but I got used to it.

[TD15]

I'm new to the forum and looking to discuss programming issues. If this is the wrong foru.m I need to know

I think stackoverflow is more suited for programming issues. I can probably help too if it is a C related question.

[rene]

The forum has a brand new "Programming & Development" section in which any related questions would fit nicely.

And as to a bit of the above commentary... the phrasing C/C++ tends to be useless: while C may be a subset of C++ and while the two languages share basic syntax, the programming language C++ when used in the manner it is supposed to be used, object-orientedly, has little whatsoever to do with the programming language C and most, most certainly not with "high-level assembler". C may be (somewhat) realisticly referred to as such but C++ may not, period: is a prime example of why that phrasing "C/C++" tends to be useless.

[TD15]

The forum has a brand new "Programming & Development" section in which any related questions would fit nicely.

I thought that "Programming & Development" section is more about the OS development.

[rene]

The Development board-section used to be all about specifically Mint-development indeed; when it changed a short while ago I myself suggested promoting Scripts & Bash (which had been functioning as a sort-of programming catch-all anyway) to Programming & Scripting but an alternative approach was used in which Scripts & Bash was retained as is and the former multiple Development forums were merged into one with general "Programming" tacked on.

I still think my suggestion was better but it has likely to do with how one interprets the word "script". As "automation" as in bash-scripts or (more) full-blown "programming" as in Python-scripts. But potato potahto...