I haven’t read any of those books, but I think I saw “Programming: Principles and Practice using C++” in the store the other day. I’ve used tutorials online mostly and gotten past the “beginner stage”, though with a lot of holes, so I might need a book to fill them in so to speak. “Boost” I’ve looked at and used for file handling, but I couldn’t really make sense of what I was doing and had to rely on example code a lot… Qt has it’s own file handling, but I haven’t gotten onto that part yet.

Thanks for the tips though

Inspired project! Good for you.

I’m sorry, but I haven’t had a chance to read the whole blog, but I saw you mention that you were a C++ beginner. I wanted to pitch in to help “steer you right”. If you know about this stuff already, sorry. ;>

1) Bjarne Stroustrup has written “Programming: Principles and Practice using C++”. It’s a very nice introduction to programming, and features modern C++ techniques throughout.

2) Stephen Dewhurst’s “C++ Common Knowledge: Essential Intermediate Programming”, is very good.

3) You should be made aware that a new C++ standard is well underway.

4) Boost. http://www.boost.org.

Have fun, and best wishes for your very neat project!

_Jesse Williamson ;-};