How odifferent is c++ from java

juicetoocool17 · Posted: 25 Mar 2010 02:32 pm Post subject: How odifferent is c++ from java

THe first two programming classes I've taken at university are java.
how is C++ in comparison?

Nablyudalovka · Posted: 25 Mar 2010 04:32 pm Post subject:

C++ is a fucking mess, stay away from it. All you can do in C++ you can do in C, try that first. Go with Java for the nice object-oriented stuff.

cze · Posted: 03 Apr 2010 01:45 pm Post subject:

java is nice for writing IDEs for other languages

Deathray · Posted: 04 Apr 2010 01:16 pm Post subject:

i like python

Schoolhacker · Posted: 04 Apr 2010 03:06 pm Post subject:

shadius · Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:19 pm Post subject:

Flavor · Posted: 26 Nov 2010 09:43 pm Post subject:

c++ is messy but it's brilliant

KelvinX · Posted: 22 Mar 2011 05:29 pm Post subject:

a big difference is that Java uses objects and implicit pointers for everything whereas C++ doesn't

if you're going for C++, pointers are gonna kill you, also there's no garbage collector in C++ so you have to free the memory yourself

also C++ doesn't do any boundary checking so it doesn't care if you do something like this:
int a[ ] = {1,2,3};
a[-1] = 1;
a[5] = 2;

it puts more work on the programmer than the compiler

AMD · Posted: 23 May 2011 11:24 pm Post subject:

well actually the jvm that java runs on is written in C++ but Java is a nice language to learn as a starting language. It has some powerful features and it is more likely that something you write in java will work nicely.