Ask HN: Is there something like Codecademy for C++?

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A friend of mine just started using Codecademy for Python and loves it. I vaguely remember seeing one or two similar sites for C++ either in the wild or here on HN. Do they exist? If so, could you please link me to them?

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I don't know about anything like Codecademy for C++, but based on my personal experience learning C++, I'd recommend starting with a solid foundation in C. C is, for beginner intents and purposes, a subset of C++, and understand the concepts of C will make it a lot easier to pick up C++. I'd highly recommend Learn C The Hard Way ( http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ ). For C++, like Watabou, I really liked C++ Primer Plus, by Prata.

Not the same thing, but I'm the creator of EngineHere. We're a teaching platform for coding that connects groups of students with instructors in for real-time virtual classes.

We'll definitely offer C++ in the near future (plus Haskell, Erlang, and other esoteric languages).

I don't know if there's such a site, but for C++, I had an awesome time with C++ Primer Plus by Stephen Prata. I love coding books with lots of exercises to do at the end of each chapter and this book has tons of them. Try it out!

It's moderately easy for beginners to dive right in but I recommend already knowing some amount of C beforehand.

I think the 3Dbuzz classes are the closest you're going to get to a 'modern' MOOC. They've been around for years.

http://www.3dbuzz.com/training/topic/c-plus-plus

edit: "Building 2D games in C++ - A Beginners Introduction" is free for the most part. For the other classes you have to pay.

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