C++ Newb looking for advice

[Alaric]

I'm a C++ newbie (I can do a little bit of windows GUI programming and know the basics) with a few years of basic with windows under my belt. I know a little bit about TCP and have made some fairly complex windows programs with Blitz Basic. I'm hoping to break into linux C++ programming, but GTK's html style of GUI programming aggravates me since I'm used to windows coordinate system and I can't figure out how to use QT4 in any of my IDE's (code::blocks, anjuta, etc.) because of the way the directories are set up. Anyways, where should I go from here? Drivers? Network programs? Distribution modding? Should I just grab the source for the kernel and study it for a couple of months? I'm pretty much open to suggestion at this point.

[the_unforgiven]

As for setting up QT with any IDE, you might want to check out qtnode (and of course the links given there).

Where should you go from here? Well, that depends on what you're interested in. Linux is open source, so you can decide to pick up whatever part of it you want to learn or work on - the code is available online for you to download/have a look at.

HTH

[techieMoe]

I'm not sure I understand your question, but there is an IDE specifically designed to work with QT and C++ called KDevelop. It's part of the KDE set of applications.

[deadram]

Personally I prefer gvim + bash. If you've managed to spend to much time reading docs, you should know how to use grep, sed, find, etc... all to your advantage. The only downside is that you need to know the command line tools to do things like recursivly search for a line in all the files in a project, etc... IDE's generally do this stuff for you.

As for setting-up projects, dispite the many times I've had to fight my keyboard to get it to work, I still recommend tutorials on autotools. Most IDE's use the autotools anyways, so knowing them helps you figure out what the IDE seemed to have forgotten to do for you

If your comming from an MFC background, check out the wcWidgets library. It's a clone of MFC, but will work on any OS (as far as I know anywho). It's also faily windowsish in it's creation of windows, buttons, etc...

GL