Big thanks to everyone who's offered advice on the textbooks! You've all
helped me a lot. Right now I'm definitely going to keep the Lippman book
and see how many weeks I'd have to eat ramen to afford the Stroustrup book
too.
But now I have another question. I always prefer to have a compiler on my
home computer for working on programming assignments. I don't particularly
feel like shelling out major bucks for Borland or Codewarrior or whatever.
Anyway, I was hoping to develop and test my programs in linux and then port
them to whatever they have in the CS labs. I've never developed in linux
before, though. I know gcc is the linux C compiler, but from what I've
read, gcc doesn't do C++. Is that true? Is there another compiler for
C++? Someone earlier mentioned egcs; what's that? I looked around on
freshmeat and the LDP and didn't come up with anything comprehensible.
With apologies in advance for being so clueless,
-tom
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