Re: boning up on c,c++

["Ben Holland" <user=122@nabble.blu.org>]

 I like the big white book for c++ (the c++ programing launguage by 
stroustrup). It does however read like a Russian philosophy novel. Basically 
a great resource to bone up on stuff such as smart pointers and exactly how 
virtualization works and how the << operator is way different from c and all 
sorts of stuff like that but it goes into a lot of depth, and oh so dry. 
It's the reference book at work. 

As for a book on data structures, the best book i've ever read on it, and 
there haven't been many to be sure, was a book called "data structures" but 
i'm not sure thats what you are after. Most likely you will get stuff asked 
about templates, the operator keyword virtualization the difference between 
* and &amp; and questions about references. I was reading up on stuff like that 
when I was interviewing for mid level stuff but the questions that were for 
senior + were just harder questions of those. Good luck! ~Ben 

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Ruben Safir <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:15:29AM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote: 
> > 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 bit out of date on the language.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++. 
> > 
> 
> 
> I've been boning up on C and C++ with the NYLXS workshops.  I believe 
> the best C book going is by King.  It's the most fundementally sound one 
> I've read. 
> 
> C++, god, the books are so aweful all around.  But we're doing a lot of 
> practicing with Lipman, I believe.  Your welcome to join us. 
> 
> Ruben 
> ` 
> > Thanks in advance. 
> > 
> > cheers. Steve. 
> > 
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