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Subject: Re: Good DJGPP-related C++ learning tools?
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:44:05 GMT
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sabrian13 AT my-deja DOT com wrote:

> Does anyone know where I can find some good C++ beginner learning tools,
> on the Internet, that are very compatible with DJGPP?

Provided you are using gcc 2.92.2, DJGPP largely complies with the
C++ standard, so as long as you avoid platform-specific tutorials
you should be OK.

> I tried some stuff and I couldn't get it to work.

That's not very informative.  Do you mean you couldn't even get a
Hello World to work, or do you mean that something more complicated
failed to work?  And in what way did it not work?

> I had read "Thinking in C++" by Bruce Eckel, and it didn't
> help so much.

Most people seem to think this is a good book.  What are you looking
for that you didn't find there?