Is anyone here learning from a book: Stroustrup Programming principles and practice..?

Question

Its the most recommend one so I started its exercises but I'm stuck at one point. After that I completely lost the drive to learn because of one tough chapter :( If someone's into it, plz help

Answer 1

If you can't understand from books try video tutorials in YouTube and next choose good book.

Answer 2

@Vishal++ which programming language are you studying?

Answer 3

Some time I am learning from books and discuss what do you want to learn!

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I would really appreciate if someone who has studied this book answers this question please.

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Hey Uvaish, Im a completely lost when I try to understand Tokens in the chapter Part 1: 6. Everything before that was clear. Im also new to the concept of classes but this chapter suddenly teaches it without any introduction

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@Giorgi True but I've already started this book, completed a lot of exercises from it. Quitting this book now will be a loss and also demotivating :( Also this is one of the top recommend books for beginners

Answer 7

I think you guys are right. This book is too tough. Will see other resources

Answer 8

@JM True that! This book is definitely like the type you said

Answer 9

I've noticed that almost all learning texts for programmers are written in this elitist style where prior knowledge about computer hardware, programming philosophies, and the language itself, is assumed. it's as if professional programmers can't fathom people whose understanding of a computer stops at the GUI. most texts, and even this app, become ludicrously tautological, vague, and even misleading in some cases.

people talk about how 30% of people drop out because they literally cannot understand how to code, but I think it has far, far more to do with our inability to simply explain ourselves in plain language.

I think a sololearn course teaching computer science would be a great asset to introducing new programmers to coding. for example, despite my newfound skill of managing the stack and the heap- I still have yet to learn what they even are! many recurring questions in the comments boil down to "I don't actually know what computers do, why does the code behave this way?"