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Anyone know a site with some C++ exercises?

by JC · in Technical Issues · 12/10/2002 (4:25 pm) · 5 replies

Hey all,
I'm re-learning C++ since the crap I learned in high school was with an old borland compiler, and from my findings the ANSI standard is a good amount different than what I learned. Well, that, and I simply forgot most of it :)

Anyway... I'm just looking for some online exercises that would be good for a person learning. You know, the type of stuff you have to do in classes.. make an ATM program, etc. I can't seem to find anything other than college class websites with homework assignments and stuff... that would work but it would be helpful to have a possible answer to the exercises.

Thanks for any help.

#1
12/10/2002 (5:19 pm)
A site that I used to have fun on was http://www.cpp-home.com/ with their coding contests. They're usually great little weekend contests dealing with algorithms and optimisations. Have some fun there and on their forum where people can discuss the challenges.
#2
12/12/2002 (5:45 am)
check this link out C++ Tutorials
#3
12/18/2002 (3:00 pm)
Ah yes... the famous "post a link to a search result because the person should have looked on their own."

Tutorials aren't what I need. The book I have is more than enough for the initial learning.

Exercises are more like... heres the problem, solve it. A good way to test what you have learned. Tutorials just hold your hand and take you step by step how to do a simple task... not the best way to test your skills.

I've searched high and low for this... so post whatever search results you find amusing, and rest assured I've seen them before.
#4
12/18/2002 (3:07 pm)
I find the best programming practice possible is to join a programming forum somewhere and help answer peoples questions. Somewhere like CodeProject,CodeGuru or experts-exchange get tons of new programming questions and to be able to help with them shows you can do the stuff, and it gives you a nice warm feeling inside :p

Give them a go or the place I pointed to earlier, there's more than enough to keep anyone going there
#5
12/18/2002 (4:30 pm)
Yeah, I checked out cpp-home, I'll take a look at the others.

Thanks for your help!