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    Quote Originally Posted by R0b0t1 View Post
    Zomg! You must read the Microsoft documentation before you program us up the application!
    Umm and that means?
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    He is saying that to make an application, you have to read and learn about the microsoft windows API.
    He is wrong, that API is not necessary to make a c++ program, it really depends on what you want to make, you could make your program only use the command line.
    But some for some things, you do have to use the operating system.

    like on windows, you have to use the WinSock API for sockets, and on unix, you use the Unix Sockets,
    I'v found those two APIs to be quite similar, except for subtle differences, like for winsock, you have to call WSAStartup() once before you start using the library, and WSACleanup() when you finish, and in unix you dont do any of that.
    also in unix you call close() and winsock you call closesocket()
    another thing is that winsock does not support Raw Sockets.

    I suggest you learn about the c++ language and its standard library and only once you know it a bit, start learning about specific APIs

    I'v also found it quite nice to join an IRC channel about c++, normally people there can help quite a lot.
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    Oh, I didn't really mean the API, but to start, I looked at Microsoft and some Google sites...

    But the API is some kewl shizzle, can't doubt that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cbris View Post
    Why should you learn a language that is comlex when there are other much easer options?
    A general rule of programming: The easier the language is to learn/read/understand, the slower it is. For example, SCAR is really slow. Pascal is faster than SCAR (talking about compiled code here). Java is faster than Pascal. C++ is faster than Java. Assembly is faster than C++.

    Note that this general rule doesn't always hold true, but that's why it's a general rule, eh?
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