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Re: Ask HN: What did you do to become an expert in C++?

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Post by hannibalhorn » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 7:48 PM UTC

queensnake wrote: post #3

Read the Exceptional C++ series (shorter, 'highlights' version is C++ Coding Standards), Modern C++ Design, and Andrei Alexandrescu's unpublished columns.

Gotta second this, after reading these books you'll have a completely different perspective on how to write code in C++. It's completely different than C.

Re: Ask HN: What did you do to become an expert in C++?

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Post by elmindreda » Mon, Apr 11, 2011, 10:20 AM UTC

You don't master it, so instead I will write about what I did to learn reasonable amounts of it.

I wrote lots of code, tried use it and then fed what I learnt back into the design. Repeatedly.

I read tons of other people's code. Large, running projects. Example code won't work.

Occasionally, I read books, but the only one I ever read all the way through was /Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days/ back in 1996 (and its title is ridiculous; I'm still learning every day).

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