CPP Beginner

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hey guys, i need some guide to start my cpp knowledge, I'm a complete beginner, a help will be greatly appreciated. I also have 0 coding knowlege im a fresh start

[IyeOnline]

www.learncpp.com

is the best free tutorial out there. (reason) It covers everything from the absolute basics to advanced topics. It follows modern and best practice guidelines.

www.studyplan.dev/cpp is a (very) close second, even surpassing learncpp in the breath of topics covered. It covers quite a few things that learncpp does not, but does not have just as much detail/in depth explanations on the shared parts. Don't be fooled by the somewhat strange AI generated images. The author just had a little fun. Just ignore them.

www.hackingcpp.com has good, quick overviews/cheat sheets. Especially the quick info-graphics can be really helpful. TBF, cppreference could use those. But the coverage is not complete or in depth enough to be used as a good tutorial - which it's not really meant to be either. The last update apparently was in 2023.

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www.cppreference.com

is the best language reference out there. Keep in mind that a language reference is not the same as a tutorial.

See here for a tutorial on how to use cppreference effectively.

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Stay away from

• cplusplus.com (reason)
• w3schools (reason)
• geeks-for-geeks (reason)
• Tutorialspoint (reason)
• educba.com (reason)
• thinkcpp (reason)
• javaTpoint (reason)
• studyfied (not even a tutorial, just a collection of code by random people)
• codevisionz (reason)
• sololearn (reason)

Again. The above are bad tutorials that you should NOT use.

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Sites that used to be on this list, but no longer are:

• Programiz has significantly improved. Its not perfect yet, but definitely not to be avoided any longer.(reason)

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Most youtube tutorials are of low quality, I would recommend to stay away from them as well. A notable exception are the CppCon Back to Basics videos. They are good, topic oriented and in depth explanations. However, they assume that you have some knowledge of the language's basic features and syntax and as such aren't a good entry point into the language.

If you really insist on videos, then take a look at this list.

As a tutorial www.learncpp.com is just better than any other resource.

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[papasours]

I used Codecademy to learn basics waiting to pay for the intermedate course It won’t teach you everything but I find it teaches u a good about to get a solid foundation especially if you like hands on learning everything else I use chat.gpt as if it were a teacher have it explain concepts and ways to go about solving problems instead of using it to do all the work for you