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I've been wondering if these lecture notes from an Introduction to C++ course are good material for me to learn the language.

Does this material contain any gross factual errors in it? Will I learn some concepts in a wrong way with them? Will I get any bad practices from it?

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    In my opinion Uni courses do not provide a very deep insight. You should better get one of the books here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list I personally recommend Accelerated C++ –  Sep 27 '11 at 00:53
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    "be better of reading a tutorial ?" (sic) No. Online tutorials are among the worst possible ways to "learn" C++. Grab a book as from the list Muggen linked to. – R. Martinho Fernandes Sep 27 '11 at 01:16
  • @ildjarn etc: can you folks please stop closing questions that YOU cannot answer. or move somewhere else please. – Cheers and hth. - Alf Sep 27 '11 at 03:01
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    @aman: the original MIT Open Courseware C++ course was unfortunately of **[very low quality, full of factual errors](http://goo.gl/MGlov)**. The next one, from the mid-term course a year later, was much improved. And judging from a cursory review of the first PDF you link to, the current stuff is **good**. – Cheers and hth. - Alf Sep 27 '11 at 03:06
  • Those are transcribed notes.. and have errors yes. A book is good ! – Caffeinated Sep 27 '11 at 03:33
  • This is a really good tutorial from beginning till the end:http://pragsoft.com/cgi-bin/load.cgi?http://www.pragsoft.com/books/CppEssentials.pdf – SChepurin Sep 27 '11 at 10:29
  • You really shouldn't expect to download some random lecture notes and expect to get a comprehensive picture of anything. Lecture notes are supposed to augment the lecture, not replace it. – Nicol Bolas Oct 23 '11 at 03:33

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The original MIT Open Courseware C++ course was unfortunately of very low quality, full of factual errors. The next one, from the mid-term course a year later, was much improved. And judging from a cursory review of the first PDF you link to, the current stuff is good.

However, as @Muggen remarked, you should better get one of the well known C++ books such as one of the books in the Stack Overflow C++ book list, e.g. Accelerated C++.

A book is much more complete and dependable.

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Cheers and hth. - Alf
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