Ok, last year when I was a sophmore in high school I took programming and the lanuage that we learned was VB and it was so easy. But this year I am going to take an indepentent study and learn C++ with one of my friends. But the bad thing is, is that the teacher doesnt even know how to use C++ so it is just me and my friend. Should I be worryed about anything?

Not really... C and C++ does use some advanced coding but you should get the hang of it pretty easily...

Although, if the teacher doesn't understand C/C++, you'll have a little trouble getting support if you need it...

I would say that if you come from a programming background, since you've already programmed in VB, you would get hang of things pretty fast.
But you've got to be aware that C/C++ are less forgiving than VB is. You have to know what you are doing. Only practice can make you close to perfect here

Yeah. Like at the end of the program, if you forget to type "end" it would never end the program, causing major errors when it reaches the end because there's nothing to do! So you have to use an "end" command.

in a way it does

first how would u learn if ur teacher does not know c++..

if your first programming language is VB then you would at least find c++ strange and cumbersome but it is realy not...

why?

VB is a window based programming which combines both event and procedural method.. while c++ is pure procedural...

if programmming in Windows, in c++ you will be the one to create your window technicaly, what i mean is you are the one to register it to windows and everything else and this makes the job long.. unlike VB all you need to do is create a form or a window and do the coding in every event like clicking and scrolling..

but in the end c++ is a very powerful language today.. it may not be that very easy to learn but still it is easy and worth the effort..

good luck...

Well the friend that is taking the class with me, his mom is a computer progammer and she has a lot of books about C ++.

Yeah that'll help alot- I learnt C++ from a book focusing on .NET and pretty much just learnt from my own mistakes... I learnt it alright, but it took forever and was so frustrating!!
On that note, be careful that you stick to standard C++ and not the .NET extensions while you're still learning. Although it's easier at first, it skips over some fundamentals that are very important later.

Make sure you utilize a book as well. Also I went from VB to C++ (with a slight detour through Java) and it wasn't all that bad. Especially if you've finished high school

all the best!

I've been working with C/C++ for a while, and I have no idea what you're talking about. The following is perfectly legal:


When you run it in the command prompt, it will print Hello, world! and end.

its hard to me