Learning More

This real quick guide is really too quick. Here are some additional references which you'll find useful.

Of the making of C++ books there is no end

Here are a few books that you find useful, with links to Amazon.com:

• Essential C++ by Stanley B. Lippman. This is an excellent tutorial, somewhat in the same spirit as the Real Quick tutorial, but much more complete. (By the way, I would not recommend its companion volume, Accelerated C++, which seems spotty to me in its coverage).
• The C++ Programming Language (3rd Edition) by Bjarne Stroustrup. Stroustrup is the creator of C++, and this book is a very complete, generally readable reference book that also makes a reasonable tutorial introduction if you are already familiar with programming.
• Computing Concepts with C++ Essentials, 3rd Edition by Cay Horstmann. I got sent this book by mistake (we used Horstmann's Java version of this book for a intro to programming course I helped teach), but I'm glad I got it. If you're new to programming, and need to start by using C++, this is a good book to do it with.

Net Knowledge

Here are some on-line resources:

• Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide. This is an essential on-line guide and reference to the Standard Template Library. Since the Standard Template Library is what makes C++ usable, you'll want to review this site.
• The cplusplus.com tutorial. A pretty good on-line tutorial, which doesn't assume you already know C. They also have a relatively complete reference guide to Standard C++ Library (i.e., the parts not covered in the STL).
• Java to C++ Transition Tutorial at Brown University.

Code read

You might find the code from this tutorial useful. Feel free to use it at your own risk.

• countch.cpp (text version). Counts and desplays character frequencies.
• UnigramTextClassifier.h (text version). UnigramTextClassifier.cpp (text version). Text classifer class based on unigram frequencies. Doxygen created documentation.
• ilearn.cpp (text version). hamspam.cpp (text version). Makefile (text version). Learner and classifier for ham vs. spam, based on UnigramTextClassifier.

Toolin' around

• Doyxgen is a good documentation tool.
• CppUnit is a good unit testing suite for C++.
• I used the GNU Compiler Collection G++ compiler for all of the code in this tutorial.

Colophon

This site was created using Emacs. The HTML was tidied up using Tidy. Comments made by people in Google thread about the first version of the tutorial were very helpful.