Road Map to Qt Expertise

[acolburn]

Hi everyone,

I am new to this forum and Qt. Both seem great. ... I'm here as a (serious) Delphi hobbyist. I am anxious to get up to speed with Qt5 ASAP and begin developing cross platform apps. I've got a long way to go and I would like to do it efficiently. Logically, I need to learn C++ first. But I'd be OK learning only Qt's version. C++ tutorials, for example, spend a lot of time showing how the language works with strings...but (I just learned) Qt has a QString type. Everything I need I can do more easily(?) with QStrings; time spent learning about strings and arrays of char's seems, well, inefficient.

Can anyone point me toward the kind of resources that would help me, as a C++ newbie, get up to speed efficiently on *Qt's version* of the language, perhaps with GUI-based examples?

Thank you everyone! -- Al C

[Brandybuck]

Get the book "An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt". It will teach you C++ and Qt at the same time. There is a free PDF version online. For a basic C++ book, I prefer "Core C++" which covers just the basics without delving into the dark corners of the language.

[acolburn]

Thanks for the response. I found the PDF you mentioned, as well as other people who recommend the same book.