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Ask HN: Audiobooks for Learning C++

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Any recommendations for quality books on C++, specifically in audiobook format?

Target audience being: no formal CS education, 3+ years of programming exp w/ object-oriented languages (javascript, python), also new to C/C++ and compiled languages.

Related: http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/95876/audiobooks-for-programmers

8 comments

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SamReidHughes
This is crazy. Get a real book, an audiobook will be a complete waste of time.
HIP63242b
Are you kidding me? I've created a startup around this concept.
veddox
Care to share a link for the benefit of the OP?
fourierhero6
I doubt that audiobooks is a good idea to learn how to program , specially C++ which is pretty complex compared to other languages. I suggest you should listen to podcast regarding 'ideas' about programming, design, discussion of frameworks etc.
veddox
Like the other commenters before me, I am highly sceptical whether this is a good idea. How are you going to learn a programming language without being able to see its constructs?

Just imagine somebody trying to read a C++ Hello World out loud:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main() { cout << "Hello World" << endl; }

DeBraid
I don't plan on learning exclusively from audio, but I have a newborn baby, thus something passively consumed / handsfree is key.
veddox
OK, that is an understandable motivation. However, I still think that a programming language isn't something you can learn from an audiobook. Like fourierhero6 said, you'd probably be better off with a book about programming itself, not about a language per se. Especially if you have no formal CS background, something like that might turn out to be really useful.