Programming advice C++,Java,ASP, books?

[AMDPower]

Hi all

This is going to be a fairly long post so I do apologise

To sum up basically I need to learn C#, Java, ASP.NET and most importantly C++ and Need to become fairly competent in C++ at least for now. I need to write programs for widows that utilise quite complicated statistical/Mathematical modelling of quite elaborate financial instruments. I need to make programs that take data from a live feed and analysis it and then transmits the information over local network to other computers/programs that use the data.


What do I know so far?

Well, many many moons ago I knew C++ and ASP 3 and visual basic 5. I left computing and concentrated on mathematics/statistics/Finance so you can imagine I have forgotten much. I am however very well versed in Matlab, Q ,SOL and various other statistical packages and quite good scripting and regularly create Very large scripts in MATLAB so not a complete nubie by a long shot.

What I really need is book advice as things are a mine field, many years ago it was much simpler.

I have been given these books so far

Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Step by Step by John Sharpe Step by step(too basic this book )

Beginning Visual Stuio C# 2010 by Wrox Press

Beginning ASP.NET 4 Wrox Press

What I need to know is

1) Shall I throw these books in the bin and buy their respective visual studio 2012 versions that have just been released or can I save money and just read them?

2) What book do you recommend for C++

so far I have been looking at this two volume set

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...mp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0139798099

and

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...mp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0131857576

3) would it be better to learn visual C++ as opposed to C++?

Sorry for the mundane questions

4) would a Intel Atom 1.86ghz netbook, 2gb ram, 128GB SSD 1366x768 screen be enough for programming, ie learning on. Would it run the visual studio 2012/10 SDK well enough?

I have a laptop but its too heavy to carry around and also have a main desktop which is more than enough but at the moment cant afford to splash on a new laptop but can stretch to a portable netbook. Need it to be cheap as chips



I need to learn this stuff fairly quickly and most probably concurrently, so any tips would be appreciated.

thanks for taking time to read and appreciate any feedback you might have.

 

[AMDPower]

anyone?

 

[AMDPower]

Learning visual c++ is the same as learning c++, except for the IDE. Visual c++ is just MS' version of c++.

For c++, first you need to find out if you will be programming in c++11, or 'plain c++'.

An Atom is fine for learning c++ on. I would not want to sit through compiling + linking code that is O(10^5) lines of code or larger, though.

thanks for all the help guys, much appreciated.

I will start with C++ then and visual C#. I am not sure what C++11 is really but from reading it just seem to be C++ that has been upgraded, apparently the transition should be easy after learning C++. Unless you think i should just jump straight into C++11. I am have been told to use C++ or Java but I do have some flexibility.

The atom based laptop is just for learning only problem is its a single core atom if I need more computing power I can use my desktop or remote remote login to my desktop machine. I have already loaded Matlab and visual studio and everything works fine but slow a little. What took 20 seconds to do on desktop took 4 minutes on my atom based netbook with Matlab but it will do as its cheap and light

Should I keep the visual C# 2010 books or buy the Visual C# 2012 books?
is it worth it as I can get them real cheap now.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Object-Orien...ed+programming

thanks for that will look into this

Let me see how I get on with this, will let you all know what book I get and how they are and if they worth buying.

thanks all