Is coding hard for you?

[Josh123]

Well if you guys have any good beginner practice problems feel free to send them my way. Anything that you might have come across from articles to everyday programming. After reading through this thread it seems practice is the best way to understand it.

I wonder if we could make a sticky thread for beginners or something?

 

[beginner99]

Every time I google some issue I'm having, I end up getting a good laugh at the horribly Engrish posts from stackoverflow. Some of the answers are pretty good though.

Yeah but what I don't like is that stuff that actually is complicated and is not related to some specific knowledge I am missing, never gets a useful answer. So for the actually hard part your mostly on your own.

 

[Pia]

http://www.cplusplus.com/

http://www.cppreference.com tends to be much better, IMO. I only visit cplusplus when I have already been to cppreference and want to find an extra example of the usage of something.

 

[irishScott]

http://www.cppreference.com tends to be much better, IMO. I only visit cplusplus when I have already been to cppreference and want to find an extra example of the usage of something.

I've actually never heard of cppreference before now, and have used cplusplus exclusively for years. Taking a quick glance at it now, I'll admit it provides some more detail in some cases but it doesn't look all that absolute-beginner friendly. Their formatting also sucks IMO, seems more focused on raw information delivery than anticipating the most commonly required information. cplusplus is a lot more succinct in presentation, resulting in more visual scanning (faster) vs scrolling.

Still looks like a good reference to keep in mind though. I'll try using it on some future projects to get a better comparison.

 

[candz_kritz]

Yes programming is quite difficult, but it's difficult for someone who's not really studying. I’m not saying that I’m really good in coding but if you're really interested to it, everything will become easier and simpler and most important thing is that you are enjoying with what you are doing…