At 20:31 2006-08-17, uvcceet wrote: >I'm a hardware engineer. Did a lot of assembler coding a long time >ago, and now just want to play with C and C++. > >I have grabbed the usual "dummies" books, and am not under any stress >to become great tomorrow, which is good, because I am seeing that the >tools I will use may be more difficult than the programming :-)
I'm sorry that you went and grabbed books before coming here and asking. IMO, they're practically useless for C++ for serious C++, I recommend http://rudbek.com/books.html >I will start with C, mostly for PICs, and embedded stuff, but I want >to get to know a bit about the Windows Programming as well, so I am >looking at M$ C++ 2005 Enterprise Edition, which I downloaded and >installed. > >The DUH question is, will this compile me C code? yes it compiles C code, though why do you want to learn C? Absent many many (>10,000) lines of legacy code to deal with, I don't see the point. > I am not very adept >at the tools, but I want to use something mainstream so I can ask >questions and be able to figure out how to get there from here. I have >several command line tools for C, but want to just make it as hard as >I can on myself, <g> so I seek one that is referenced in many of the >books I am reading. > >I was of the impression that all C++ compilers can handle C but before >I dig a deeper hole, I thought I should ask those who know best. > >Thanks a lot > >Mark > > > > > > > > > >To unsubscribe, send a blank message to ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > Victor A. Wagner Jr. http://rudbek.com The five most dangerous words in the English language: "There oughta be a law" To unsubscribe, send a blank message to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
