How do I become a good developer using c++?

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I am Mechanical Engineer who interested in coding or developing software using c++

Posted 9-Jan-15 4:49am

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Updated 30-Apr-16 20:38pm

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Richard MacCutchan 9-Jan-15 11:18am

The same way you became a Mechanical Engineer: study, practice, practice, practice.

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As OriginalGriff said, the only way to become a good developer is study, practice, study, practice ...
Advices:
- Start with an easy/safe language: VB, Java, C#, not C or C++ (manual memory management makes C and C++ more difficult when learning programming)
- Read documentation / Follow tutorials (a lot of them)
- Start with tiny/useless projects, the purpose is to learn programming, not doing something useful.
- Start with console mode programs (no fancy graphics, no mouse)
- Learn debugger
Debugger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^]
- A problem ? Google is your friend.
- Learn Boole algebra
- Learn one or more analyse methods, I recommend E.W. Djikstra top-Down method
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-down_and_bottom-up_design[^]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_programming[^]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra[^]
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd03xx/EWD316.PDF[^]

Posted 30-Apr-16 20:38pm

Patrice T

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Richard MacCutchan 1-May-16 3:02am

Question is more than a year old.

Patrice T 1-May-16 3:05am

Thank you.
I got tricked by the "Edited 25 minutes ago"

Richard MacCutchan 1-May-16 3:09am

There was also a spam answer just before yours, which I have deleted.

Patrice T 1-May-16 3:15am

Would be nice if after your spam deleting, the date of last change was also recalculated.

[no name] 1-May-16 5:28am

The answer that you have deleted was not a spam, but a clear answer to the question posted by Member 11363621.
In your profile, you have indicated the following: "One day I hope to become a real programmer.", which means you are not a mathematical software development specialist, and you are not a mechanical engineer either.
May I suggest that you refrain from deleting any correspondence between professional people, especially when the correspondence goes beyond your area of expertise.

Richard MacCutchan 1-May-16 7:32am

Ha ha!

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-09T05:08:00

Sorry to say this, but...the only way to I become a good developer using anything is practice. In fact, the only way to get good at anything is to practice! There really are no short cuts.

So get a book, go on a course, do all the exercises (no matter how trivial they seem) - then work on projects: small to start with, but getting bigger. Being "good" means doing a lot, learning a lot, and thinking about what you have done, and why.

Good luck!