Learning C++

This repository contains notes from the 8^th edition of "Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day", written by Siddhartha Rao.

All source code directly comes from the book and all credit goes to Siddhartha for putting together a wonderful resource for developers curious about the C++ programming language.

Notes on Programming, Building and Executing C++ Applications

This repo was built on a MacBook running macOS Mojave (version 10.14.4). Code was written using VIM. Code was complied using g++ using Linux. All executables are named after the script (i.e. math.app is an executable that originates from the compiled math.cpp C++ file).

# change from project directory to ch_01/ directory
cd ch_01/

# instruct g++ to create an executable named math.app by compiling the math.cpp file
g++ -o math.app math.cpp

# execute math.app
./math.app

Not Tracking Executable Files on Git

After reading "Should appary files be stored in a Git repository?" from Quora, I've decided to not track executables. To do so, I'm manually adding the .app file extension to executables to take advantage of the fact that GitHub's C++ .gitignore file ignores that particular file extension for executables. This decision was made with the understanding that there is no standard file extension type (similar to Window's .exe) for executable files on Linux machines since nearly any file can be executable in Linux (Source: Community Wiki via Ask Ubuntu Stack Exchange).