I want to learn to code in c++. The only programming experience I have is Excel. How hard will it be to learn by myself?
learncpp.com
BinaryByter
BinaryByter
try it out for yourself
Ludovic 'Archivist'
I want to learn to code in c++. The only programming experience I have is Excel. How hard will it be to learn by myself?
Well, it is a very different paradigm
Shivam
:3
BinaryByter
@Ariana1729 do you eat falcons often?
Mordechai
can you recommend any books?
Ludovic 'Archivist'
I'm already following this website
C++ is a long way, expect 5 years of practice to get a good advanced level
BinaryByter
C++ is a long way, expect 5 years of practice to get a good advanced level
programming in general is
Ludovic 'Archivist'
And that expertise does not run beyond C++11
Ludovic 'Archivist'
I am probably at a fairly advanced level in more modern versions tho
Ludovic 'Archivist'
Somehow, all that expertise usefulness shatters away when I type a winapi function name
BinaryByter
xDD
Ludovic 'Archivist'
Mainly because winapi is quite carcinogenic
BinaryByter
man its made by ms
Shivam
It took me a ten of years to get what I would call a confortable expertise
It depends on the learner too
Shivam
Ikr
Ludovic 'Archivist'
they dont just feel like them tho
Pro of Java is that code is easy to share over the network for distributed applications
Ludovic 'Archivist'
Pro of C# is that you can benefit of fast SIMD without using hardcore relocations
BinaryByter
Pro of C# is that you can benefit of fast SIMD without using hardcore relocations
+ you have some very nice gui tools
Shivam
Pro of C# is that you can benefit of fast SIMD without using hardcore relocations
May i know from where did you learn c#?
BinaryByter
Pro of Java is that code is easy to share over the network for distributed applications
i should get into distributed computing
Ludovic 'Archivist'
+ you have some very nice gui tools
Yeah, the issue is that it is a laser cannon on a donkey
BinaryByter
Yeah, the issue is that it is a laser cannon on a donkey
i put that donkey onto my ferrari, so its fine
Ludovic 'Archivist'
May i know from where did you learn c#?
I took the Visual Studio IDE and spit code that work from my first impressions of how it should work
BinaryByter
BinaryByter
a cpp backend can fasten things by alot
Shivam
Wow
Shivam
Yeah
BinaryByter
BinaryByter
btw: a smalr test i did today
BinaryByter
Actually, C# is simple, but also off topic, let me send you a guide in DM
i guess cs would be fine in here
Mihail
Mihail
With a bool
BinaryByter
prolly even slower
Mihail
Or is that the same?
BinaryByter
yea std::bitset is really just a wrapper around thut
BinaryByter
waaiit
BinaryByter
noo
BinaryByter
std::bitset is for making bitsets outside of classes
BinaryByter
clever
Mihail
I only recently discovered it
BinaryByter
its only useful in very limited cases
Mihail
Was solving something on LeetCode and this helped a lot
BinaryByter
dont expect memory savings from it
Mihail
Had to check if it's a power of 4. Which would mean having 1 true bit in an odd position
BinaryByter
the compiler will still do its alignment thing + bitshifts are expensive
Mihail
Mihail
Was something like that
Ludovic 'Archivist'
Bitset and vector<bool> are hella slow
BinaryByter
bitshifts are very very slow
Alejandro
why the fuck does that compile?
The assignment returns the value being assigned, so I guess that's why it works. The compiler just cast the int to bool
BinaryByter
BinaryByter
not the same
BinaryByter
+kinda useless since bool has no defined size
Ludovic 'Archivist'
std::basic_string<bool> 😂
This actually work like what one would expect from a non standard vector<bool>