From kde-devel Fri Feb 22 19:47:46 2008 From: Pau Garcia i Quiles Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:47:46 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Where to start: C++ for students & KDE4 Message-Id: <20080222204746.khvhl1y0owkwgk0w () www ! elpauer ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=120370919218177 Quoting Alan Ezust : +1 That book (Alan is one of the authors) is really good. > "Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ and Qt4" is a good start in > learning C++ 'the qt way' and also provides an instructor's guide with > solutions, and an overhead slides version so that you can lecture from > that while students follow along with the book. > > http://oop.mcs.suffolk.edu has some excerpts, including introductory > c++ material. > It's meant for university students, but it does have some initial > exercises and some solutions to try. > > I think students should start learning Qt and write a few apps, and > KDEify their favorite app at the end of the course, or in the next > semester. Since since KDE4 is so new, I suspect anything published via > traditional routes on dead trees is going to be obsolete by the time > it hits the stores. > > > --alan > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:03 AM, RalfGesellensetter wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> I teach computer sciences (students aged 10-20, as it comes to >> programming languages, mostly Java now). During the 90s, I was trained >> in C (cc,gc) at University, and meanwhile I gained some basic >> understanding of C++ (mainly Qt3). >> >> Now, I am faced to a voluntary club of kids who are eager to start >> software development with C++. Our desktops run KDE 3.5.5, but it >> should be possible to install KDE4/Qt4 development tools. >> >> My questions are: >> - Where to start to be in the right track towards KDE4 in the >> first place. >> - What tools to use >> - Which tutorials to recommend >> - Do you have ideas of initial tasks or of simple >> samples to analyse? >> >> Thank you for any hints, >> regards >> Ralf. >> >> >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to >> unsubscribe << >> > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to >>> unsubscribe << > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<