Naaa, I’m not as clueless "I think", but once I was. I Screwed a lot when I fumbled around with the Q2 code and the LCC-32 bit compiler. No luxury of a debug utility here.
I totally understand why ppl are using MS dev C++ or Borland cause it just don’t crashes, at actually gives you the reason, when you are doing debug builds. Pretty neat.
There is still stuff I don’t understand, and still stuff I use that I don’t understand fully either, but unless I don’t use it, I will never learn what I’m doing wrong.
Let me Quote from the creator of c++; Bjarne Stoustrup, book.
THE C++ programming LANGUAGE
Third edition
Page 43
You don’t have to know every detail of c++ to write good programs.
And
Page 20 chapter 2
"The first thing we do, lets kill all the language lawyers"
-henry VI, part III
You make of this what you like.
i can recommend this book, at first i thought bogus, but what i had then was an outdated compiler. MS VS 5.0
Using namespace std:: crap
so if any are interested in this book, it published by Addison Wesley
Even beginners can start with this book, and even professionals can learn new things from it too, at least they claim that.
Title
"The C++ programming Language"
Author Bjarne Stroustrup
ISBN 0-201-889543
$44.95 (“when I got it”)