Sams teach yourself C++ in 24 hours
by Jesse Liberty · first published 2011
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…directory." Didn't phase me. I remember someone asking me later on if I was going to write a game. I just looked at them blankly and said: "I'm going to write a phone directory". I just learned today that "Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours" was co-written by Jessee Liberty, one of my all-time favorite technical book writers. "Programming C#, 2nd Edition" was a great book. I loved tech stores too. I still have all of the Apple pamphlets…
on “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)” ↗…foundation that has helped me learn other languages much more quickly. Although the question is for learning "only one" and I'm not sure C or C++ is a great "only" static typed language. [1] using "Sams Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours" which I got in an actual bookstore and came with a copy of the Borland C compiler :)... ah the memories.
on “Ask HN: If I only learn one static typed language, which one should I learn?” ↗Me too. If only I had a better book than Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours or whatever, I might've been a decent programmer.
on “Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi” ↗I bought a copy of "Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours" at a CompUSA in 1999. The guy at the checkout looked at it, laughed, and told me about this article. When I was 16 I was looking at programming books at Borders and a guy handed me a copy of "The C…
on “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)” ↗>> I bought a copy of "Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours" at a CompUSA Some of those books were laughably bad. But thing I miss from back then, was the feeling that the book was going to be the key to getting you started writing whatever crazy idea you had…
on “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)” ↗…did this by myself after I presented it to class for show and tell, and she actually called my parents to tell them how impressed she was. Later I got into proper programming with a bootleg copy of "Sams Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours" [2], a book on ActionScript I had found at Goodwill to use with a pirated copy of Flash MX 2004, and a C++ book that I got for my birthday one year. I eventually became reasonably ok at software stuff…
on “Stories from 25 Years of Software Development” ↗…I was capable of, so that afternoon I begged my parents to take me to a nearby used-books store and buy me a "Learn to Program in C++" book, and started on that. Eventually I also found a copy of the Sams "Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours" book that I read through online. I still kind of have that mentality; I learned how to use Isabelle because I felt that that's what the "grown up" computer scientists use. I learned how to write Haskell…
on “Why I'm Skeptical About Efforts to Revolutionize Schooling” ↗…Turbo C" shared with me at school on a floppy. I remember my first for-loop deeply impressed me as I realized I could build more complicated things. Later, every time I learned a new concept in the book "Sams Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours" I would have a new game idea.
on “My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback” ↗