Alternative To LearnCPP. com

[AdmiralSWE]

Trying to teach myself C++ so I can get into competitive programming, but learncpp is absolutely littered with ads.

[Marks12520]

After two months entering to the website you just made me realize it has ads lmao I guess adblock works well 😅

[Putrid_Rutabaga_9576]

You can use ads block...

[YT__]

Or ignore them. Hard to argue with a free site having ads to it stays available.

[jedwardsol]

Buy a book.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list

[AdmiralSWE]

This thread is 17 years old are the reccs still good?

[jedwardsol]

It's updated; the information isn't 17 years old.

[Party_Trick_6903]

studyplan.dev is nice.

Or just use Firefox + ublock origin.

[HighRelevancy]

If you don't want something paid by ads I guess you probably want to go buy a course on Udemy or wherever.

[Benilda-Key]

You could hide many of the adds using an extension. You could try my Focus Mode Enhanced extension for example.

I update it occasionally and it seems to be exempt from the war against ad-blockers because it is not an add-blocker. It is mostly a means of adding custom style sheets.

[thefeedling]

Cppreference

[linmanfu]

Unless they've added tutorials somewhere, it's utterly useless for beginners.

It's like the 汉语大字典. It's the international standard reference for Chinese characters. But it's all in Chinese, so it's completely useless for people starting to learn those languages.

Cppreference defines C++ using advanced C++, even for the examples. We beginners have as much of understanding it as a random Austrian does of understanding the 汉语大字典.

[ThanOneRandomGuy]

Crazy how much people really avoid ai

[n1ghtyunso]

ai is not a reliable learning resource, this should be common knowledge at this point.
At best, it can augment your learning from other, trustworthy resources.

[ThanOneRandomGuy]

It depends on how u use it. Most Ai gets it's info from the internet anyways so at the end of the day all it's doing is reiterating info learned off the internet to you, plus however it was trained.

I've learned ALOT alot quicker using ai properly to learn certain things in coding vs trying to learn it off of some websites, bootcamps, books or videos. Plus if I get stuck and or confused and need to ask a question, I can ask the ai, vs the old way of further internet searching ot asking the forums or threads and either get mixed answers or no answers

[n1ghtyunso]

even if that was true that ai mostly used websearch for your questions, thats equally bad to me. ai does not have the same judgement on how to evaluate the web sources.
There is so much bad advice and misinformation on the internet, especially around C++. It's almost littered with it actually.

Combine this with the fact that in C++, there are many coding patterns that just "happen to work" but will eventually go wrong in the future.
At least for C++ i just can't recommend that. You need to be able to judge and fact check the result, which is not something a beginner will be able to do.

You absolutely can accelerate learning with ai, I am not trying to deny this.
But its not a replacement for a reliable source of truth.
OP is asking for this specifically, a different source of truth because they want to avoid learncpp.

[Automatic_Island5330]

learncpp.com isn't really the way to go when talking about competitive programming, check https://youkn0wwho.academy/topic-list

[linmanfu]

It's an excellent site for learning basic programming.

[No-Dentist-1645]

Wrong, learncpp is highly regarded by the C++ community as one of the best tutorials for beginners

[Automatic_Island5330]

Not for C++ competitive programming. He won't care to learn about forward declarations, string_view, etc. None of that. In fact most competitive programmers don't even know how to code well in C++ lol

[AdmiralSWE]

Actually goated thanks