REALLY good C++ training?
Dear Lazyweb: Is there available, on planet Earth, REALLY good C++ training? Price and location are no object (within reason). A week duration would be perfect. I’m looking for something that can put me on the road from a 1990’s era, middle-grade, procedural with dashes of OO, STL-barely-grokking, late night double-free-debugging, C++ job-get-doner to a 21st century, meta-template slinging, smart pointer using, TR1 breathing, C++ madman who can turn on a dime from modern OO to generic to functional programming as the mood hits me. My ultimate end goal would be to be able to open up the source code to a random Boost library and not immediately doubt that I’m even looking at C++.
Possibly related: did you ever notice that Scott Meyers looks exactly like The Ultimate Warrior?
REPLY))
No “good” training is available on C++ because it is simply not possible to grok C++ in just a week. It is just too complex and ugly. That is why we no longer teach freshman how to program in C++ (we use Java here).
Training for someone who is passingly familiar with C++ to take them to the next level doesn’t generate enough of a market to be offered. Any one bright enough to want it can probably slug through a few Scott Meyers books anyway and not need it.
REPLY))
I would suggest reading online.. Blogs are a good place to start imo, like the one I’m writing (should be linked with my name).
Good luck,
Roman.