i would reccommend agains using borland, yes, there will be some large differences if you do that then switch to visual c++.

if you have visual c++, just use it, but start in console mode(a win32 console project) as i said in my post above.

-Nicholas Anton

Well I have Borland now. When I go back to school, I can get Visual C++ .Net pretty cheap because of the student''s discount (and I start school in about 2 weeks) Should I just wait and start with Visual C++ .Net (start in console mode win32) so I dont have to adapt to the change or will it be too hard and I should just start with Borland?

if you are VERY CAREFULL not to use any borland specific code, yes, start now with it, but be forewarned, a lot of things that work in borland, dont work at ALL in visual c++, and a lot of things that work in visual c++ dont work in borland.

-Nicholas Anton

Then i might as well start with Visual C++ becuase I plan to program under the platform of Windows... Anyways, I''m going out to learn C++, not Visual C++ right?

(or in other words, if I learn C++ the language will there be some things that wont work on windows and if so, are those major issues or minors?)

LOTS of things are platform specific, and will only work on windows (or linux, or MacOS, etc.)


If you only want to write the most general, portable code, make sure that the C book you buy has ''ANSI C'' in it''s title. That should work on pretty much all compilers/computers.

Guess I''ll start with Visual C++ instead of Borland then...Thanks a lot for the help. I''ll do more research.

Ummm...quick question

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect... is that a C++ complier? Just wondering, because my friend has that.

[edited by - NyCxSpyder on August 22, 2002 10:13:03 PM]

NM found the answer....