On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Brendon wrote: | This summer holiday I took on the task of learning C++ with (shamefully :) | the help of C++ For Dummies. | | Having tried to learn C++ in the past I'm now reasonably familar with it's | synax so i thought i'd also try learning QT/KDE programming at the same time. | But the tutorials I've been through on the doc.trolltech.com site have left | me a little disappointed. | | Does anyone know of a good site where QT/KDE programming is explained? And | what did you start with when learning C++?
I don't use KDE and I don't like Qt's LnF so I don't know about that part. As for learning C++ -- it is big and complicated and the little details will get you. I would recommend starting out with an easier language to get the basics of programming down first. Then move into C++ once you understand how to program. I highly recommend Python as an easy, powerful, and clean language to learn. It also allows you to choose the most appropriate paradigm -- you can start out procedurally (simpler) and move into OO (class-based) when you are ready for it. Alan Gauld has an excellent tutorial for beginners at http://www.crosswinds.net/~agauld. Python also has bindings to Qt (PyQt) so you can do Qt/KDE programming using Python and forget about the headaches that C++ can give you. If you decide to try python, check out the tutor mailing list, it is very helpful (tutor@python.org, http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor). You may also want to try Java. It is basically C++ with pointers, manual memory management, and freestanding functions removed. Also the class definition conicides with the declaration (not in 2 separate files). Its syntax is nearly identical, yet it simplifies quite a few things. IMO Python is much better designed, much easier to use, and more powerful (and flexible) than Java. -D
