good book for c++ syntax?

[mackey333]

hey everyone...i'm pretty new to c++, i know java, vb, qbasic and very very basic c++. i am trying to learn c++ because my teacher asked me to go represent our school at a programming contest on april 29th. i want to learn c++ because it would be way faster than java, which is my best language. so can anyone recomend a book/online source that gets right down to the syntax without explaining about objects and classes etc. because i don't have a lot of free time to do this in. as i said, i understand all the programming theory i just need how to do the more advanced things in c++ besides number manipulation and cout and cin...such as methods, arrays, stacks, bit strings, read/write to file, basic guis (message/input boxes). any help is greatly appreciated -Greg :-Q

 

[xwb]

You are asking 2 things:

1) C++ syntax
2) GUIs etc

Unlike Java, GUIs in C++ are OS specific. Since this is the MS C++ forum, I assume you will be using MSVC. There is a book by Charles Pietzold (or a very similar spelling) but it is quite pricy which is quite good for Windows stuff.

For C++, there are books by Herb Shiltz. These are not accurate for the finer details but great for the superficial stuff to jog your memory about syntactic differences. They are the only ones I've seen that are a convenient size to carry round. A better one would be C++ Primer by Lipmann. It covers a lot of stuff and starts with STL and containers straight away. No messing about with C and then going to C++. This might be more useful for a Java programmer.

 

[mackey333]

ok thanks, i'll check it out -Greg :-Q