starting cpp for the millionth time.
over xmas break i was visiting a cousin of mine and he uses C++ all the time for his job and when he saw me reading books on that and linux he was pretty happy and started teaching me. So i got a day and a half of good lessons and old books and such. The first problem i ran into was the dev cpp distro was old or something it doesnt have an iostream but rather a standard io or something so not wanting to mess with that and all the files it refers to he just let me use is Visual studio 8. Now im home dont have a good version of a C++ program and the only visual studio thing i have is VB express. can anyone point me in the direction of the best verison of C++ software. i ask only because i hate downloading more than i have to because A. i have a crowded slow computer B. i got a trojan a few months ago that self installed a billion things and although the virus protection and firewall alerted me that it was deleting stuff that was messing with the registry it jumped thro the network i guess and got on my laptop… and that wasnt well protected.
well even though you said you don't like bloodshed's dev-cpp, use it anyway lol. its not that hard to understand. simply for the iostream, its #include <iostream> lol if you refuse to use it, i believe there is a Borland version that compiles cpp. I know they have a Java compiler, and think I have heard they have a cpp one as well. Google it.
i was always told that if u can get C++ everything else comes pretty easy. but DEV's doesnt have IOstream working as far as i have seen. I even have it on disk it came with a book. same problem #include <iostream> doesnt work it says something to the nature of iostream not existing and when u look into it… it isnt there i've used something older but that doesnt allow a C out or C in feature. i think what i used was c standard library but im not positive.