Why aren't there many blogs about C++?

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C++ blogs that you regularly follow?

I look around the internet looking in social bookmarking sites and a few blogs to find out they're all either about web design or web development. Don't get me wrong, these are pretty awesome blogs for learning web design/development, but where are all of the programming blogs? nettuts.com/smashingmagazine.com are two of my daily reads that provide awesome articles tutorials for all of the new web design trends, but again—are there any C++ blogs that are solely based on tutorials?

I've learned PHP/XHTML/CSS/Javascript techniques solely from reading blogs (w3c is useless). Feels like I really can't get delve into the programming environment with just reference guides on STL, boost libs, etc. What are some practical uses? What can I make as practice? What can I show my mom to be proud of? I understand that there's many helpful sites on understanding programming, data structures, OOP, but I'm looking for blogs dedicated to turoails on practical applications like a chatroom, an IRC bot, a text editors. I find it very difficult to sit in on a computer and stare at 200 lines of documented source code with no experience at all.

I thought it was programming in general until I found a few C# tutorial blogs that were really helpful, but I could never find any tutorial blogs for C++.

Sorry if I've gotten repetitive.

Answer 1

Here's a whole list of blogs, if that's what you're looking for http://www.csharp411.com/best-c-blogs/

Answer 2

All the C++ blogs are hosted on sourceforge, google code, github, and others, under the name commit message.

Answer 3

There are plenty of online resources for C++, they just aren't necessarily in blog form. There are lots of free online tutorials, books, and code snippets for C++ available. There are also discussion forums such as comp.lang.c++.moderated and magazines such as The C++ Source, why would you need a blog?

Answer 4

There are several C++ blogs. I can't say how many are tutorial-like. I suspect that since C++ is older and, in some senses, more mature than C# or Java that you will find fewer C++ tutorials written recently (but you will find several "how to get started" books written a decade ago).

Answer 5

There aren't very many C++ blogs, and only a small percentage of those are worth reading. Nearly the only ones I know of that are really good are Sutter's Mill and C++ Next.