An interim update and clarification: Clarification:
I meant to say (in the original post) that I was looking for an explanation of a "reference" in C++, and both the "Learn C++ in 21 Days" and the "C++ Annotations" link gave me good explanations. I think a key for my learning at this point is to stop trying to read 1200 page books from front to back and start using electronic books (books on line or on a disk) and their indexes to search for specific things I need to deal with. (O'Reilly's Perl Bookshelf CD worked well in this regard a few weeks ago when I was trying to understand the TWiki program (in Perl). Unfortunately O'Reilly does not have (AFAICT) a C++ Bookshelf CD.) My goal (for C++) is to contribute to the AbiWord project. For TWiki I imported the entire program into Leo2 and then started annotating the code with my "newbie" level of comments. (See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiInLeo and maybe skim through http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/LiterateDevelopment. I have made a reasonable amount of progress in understanding TWiki and Perl, and could post a more up-to-date (but not final) .leo file -- I've temporarily put that effort on hold while I try to get to a similar level of understanding in C++ / AbiWord.) For AbiWord, I imported some of the code into Leo2, but am not sure I want to try to import all of it. I've made sort of a personal breakthrough in my understanding of C++, and think that now I can learn a lot by using the Doxygen (and maybe the LXR) tool(s) on the www.abisource.com site to learn much more, but I still want to document my learning in Leo (or someplace). What I may try to do is incorporate all the C++ headers into Leo and provide enough additional annotation so that I understand the function of each non-private member of each class. Sorry, went on further than I intended. See below for the update. Randy Kramer wrote: > Not all the content is part of the Free Ed site. For instance, the Sams > Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, Second Edition, leads you to www.dice.com > (in error) or to some other site with the actual content of the book (I > guess I didn't bookmark that site, and I can't remember the name). I > have trouble getting there, so I'm filing a bug report with > www.dice.com. > > I should have mentioned in the previous paragraph that using the book > requires that you register at that site (free) (the site which I can't > remember) and login. > > Once I learn the name of that site and how to get there consistently > I'll repost. If you manage to get there consistently, let me know. > (I'm using IE5 on Win95 -- sorry, it's a lot faster and more consistent > than konqueror (which is my preferred browser on Linux).) The name of the site is www.informit.com. This link works for me: http://www.informit.com/content/index.asp?product_id={83B8BE68-A805-4140-9F48-F2540866AC50}&element_id={CB4084E4-F9E6-45AA-BEBE-0B39F802B20D} (Short enough to memorize, huh? ;-) www.dice.com wrote back to me and said they no longer own the ITKnowledge site (is that the www.informit.com site?), so they could not help me. Right now I seem to be able to get into the informit site consistently by following links directly to their site. Maybe that is the trick, rather than trying to follow links from www.free-ed.com. If I learn more, I'll post again. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer
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