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Re: boning up on c,c++



 Hi Steve, 

A lot of the vocabulary and techniques, at least the ones I find as "newer" are pretty much captured as design patterns, so you might want to try a couple of Design Patterns books.  A lot of the reasons why you should choose one pattern over another answers efficiency and code organization, etc...  This gives you a good broad perspective on a number of OO techniques and it comes with the jargon folks are using... 

Just a thought as where to start... 

- Jared 



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From: Stephen Adler <[hidden email]> 
To: BLU Discussion <[hidden email]> 
Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 10:15:29 AM 
Subject: boning up on c,c++ 

Guys, 

I had a phone interview with a wall street recruiting firm. They like to 
ask you a bunch of c,c++ technical questions over the phone before the 
actually invite you for a face to face interview. Well, I've been coding 
c for 20 years and c++ for a good 15 years, and I've realized that I'm a 
bit out of date on the language. Basically I use enough of the language 
to get my work done, but I skip over a lot of the newer features because 
I never went through formal training in the language syntax. 
(for example, one question was... "What's more efficient, initializing 
variables inside the constructor through explicit assignment or using 
initializers?" Also lots of questions on the use of "const". Anyway, I 
realize that I need to do a syntax review of the language, (Its 
something I should do anyway) and I was wondering if you guys could 
recommend a c++ book which is brief but covers all the modern usages of c++. 

Thanks in advance. 

cheers. Steve. 


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