new JAVA programming with C++ relatability question.

[klagartin]

I am currently a CS major at a university that teaches JAVA as its introductory class. Next year, I have to switch to a university closer to home. This university teaches c++ as its introductory language.

I am wondering how tough you think the java-->C++ transition will go.

Also, any reference/article/book/pdf/webpage that is very thorough in its explanation of the differences would be nice.

Especially if its talking in relation to the exact java-->c++ switch.

Thanks for your help.

[Philip M]

This is the JavaScript forum. Java and Javascript are entirely different programming languages, in spite of the confusingly similar names. Rather like Austria and Australia!

[klagartin]

Oops. Sorry, Im obviously a novice.

[Fou-Lu]

You should find the conversion fairly simple. C++ requires a little more effort that Java does under the hood for you like garbage collection and memory allocations. Java has a few benefits over C++ in the sense of ease, garbage collection and multiplatform come to mind. C++ is more powerful though, you can template from multiple classes which Java cannot.

[Aradon]

I did Java for 7 years before switching to C++ for the past 3. The transition is pretty easy as long as you're willing to learn ab it more about memory management.

For me the switch was easy once I got my head around a bit of the complexities of C++. What I did to learn was to implement a bunch of data structures in C++, Linked Lists, hash tables, binary search tree's etc.

It got me up to speed quickly.