Reddit mentions of Absolute C++, Student Value Edition (5th Edition)

Thanks! I've worked with amateur JavaScript before (my first language), so my natural formatting might be off.

Also, I hate using goto but I haven't nailed down Classes and Headers. I got myself stuck and ended up using it anyway. My C++ teacher (who I only had for about 2 weeks at a "camp".) didn't go to in-depth about it so I'm kinda lost in some areas.

Thankfully, I have copies of this and this in iBooks on my iPod for reading in my spare time.

The commented "Signature" was where I built the design of what would be outputted, and is not any actual "Signature."

It's nice to get so much feedback from what I thought looked like a dead thread. :)

Thanks /r/Cplusplus!

*Edited for grammar.

Then here, I was self taught before I went to school, so I may have been in a similar place. The way I did it, and the way I recommend most people do it, is to select a language (in my case C++, and its the one I recommend), pick up a book on it ( I recommend this guy), and read through the entire thing from cover to cover, while doing as many of the little problems it gives you along the way. Make sure you pick up Visual Studios, or an other IDE, don't be too proud like I was and use VIM or Notepad++ (Though, I don't think it was a bad idea), and focus on programming in a platform you're comfortable with, Windows, Mac, Or Linux. After your done, make a small project you think you can do, or can't do, and try and do it, like really go for it. And don't you dare tell yourself its good enough. Its either World Class, or its bullshit. That doesn't mean I, as in the person writing this needs to think its World Class, it means YOU have to think its world class. And as you continue in your career your idea of what that means changes and grows. Once you have some projects under your belt, start looking for projects online, or in person that need programmers, no matter the language (Once you know one language, picking up your second will be far easier, and if you're working cheap they will let you in either way and fire you if you fail), and invite yourself in, on the cheap if you need to, and eventually you'll likely meet somebody who can use you elsewhere. And don't ever stop doing secondary projects with other teams, its one of the best networking opportunities out there, so even while you work, you need to continue side jobs.

Expect to finish that book in 3 to 6 months, expect to do 1-2 months of independent projects, then expect to find some other sort of project online in the next two months where you're working with other people, especially with other programmers, and expect to find a job a year or two down the road. Its where I went before I went and completed my school, so I may have some experience with this.