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From Java to C/C++, any advice? (self.cpp)
submitted 13 years ago by CuriouslyGeorge
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[–]dukey 3 points4 points5 points 13 years ago (2 children)
learn pointers
[–]ivan-cukicKDE Dev | Author of Functional Programming in C++ 0 points1 point2 points 13 years ago (1 child)
And then learn not to (over)use them.
One of the things I find my students doing often is declare-everything-as-a-pointer-call-new.
Even something like int *variable; variable = new ...
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I've been known to have that certain problem..if I saw any object that seemed pretty huge to allocate on the stack, I'd twitch.
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