1.5.4. C++ Language Tutorial
An online tutorial for the C++ language, located at http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial. A very basic and text based tutorial, while helpful it does not provide some of the flash or interactivity that CSTutor will have. Due to the fact that it has little to no bells-and-whistles, the page loads very fast.
Good Features:
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Opening screen is a list of all subsections, grouped by difficulty
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Sidebar has the entire list of subsections, remains visible when you are viewing a section
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Sections displaying code are written in a manner consistent with an editor’s display, including line numbers, correctly colored words, and comments
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Code that produces an output has the output displayed on a section next to the code
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Function call examples are drawn below the declaration for the function with arrows linking specific inputs from the call to the prototype
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Visual representations of one and two-dimensional arrays
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Visual representations of pointers
Bad Features:
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No tree-structure to lessons, everything is linearly arranged
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Have to use the sidebar to skip quickly from section to section
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Sections are not broken up into manageable chunks, leads to some very long sections
Missing Features:
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A way to edit what code has been typed in
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A quiz to test understanding of material that has just been learned
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An image of a multi-dimensional array of greater than two dimensions
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Interactivity of any form
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