PS: At the beginning, you won't need an IDE at all. You could also use Eclipse, but I don't really have any experience with it. My only real complaint with it til now is that it's code completition system is not quite as sophisticated as Microsofts IntelliSense. It also has built-in support for wxWidgets (a quite nice platform independent GUI system). It also has the advantage to be available on multiple platforms and it supports multiple compilers. However, that also means it has quite a few features that may confuse the new programmer, or lead them astray with features that require some knowledge about how they work.Ĭode::Blocks is not quite as heavily loaded with features, though you are unlikely to miss anything using it. Visual C++ has a few more features (there is a 2010 version btw) and is optimized to make especially windows programming easier.

best C++ tutorials are text-based, I find. P.S: I checked on some of his videos, and a frequent comment was that their anti-virus programs were objecting to the use of system(). Normally I'm quite airy, but I've bookmarked this site for the purposes of making myself angry for any acting classes I might take. That comes out to 13 fairly severe errors.

It just indicates the end of an instruction, geez.ĩ: Use of system() in an invalid context.ġ0: Use of system without the #inclusion of ġ1: Completely understates the difficulty of learning C++ for some people.ġ2: His tutorials completely leave out all the OOP.ġ3: He never touches C++ type casting in his tutorials either. In fact, Dev-C++ tried to correct him on this one by adding a tab.Ĩ: He misdefined the purpose of the semicolon. cpp files are made out of functions, without making any note about objectsĦ: Says we don't need to know what 'using' does. 3: Says one doesn't need to know what #include does.Ĥ: Says #include processes a source file before compilation which says 'pretty much' nothing.ĥ: Says that all.

Codeblocks compiler not c++11