C/C++ Is There a Reliable Programming Forum for C++, Java, and Other Languages?

[ehrenfest]

Whenever I do a search on the web about something specific in C++, I get like tons of hits from many different forums. I want to join a forum that is like specifically for programmers to communicate and where there are lots of people who answer questions about C++ and Java and other languages. It seems like there just way to many such forums...does anybody know of a good one?

 

[asdfggfdsa]

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/

 

[jim mcnamara]

http://www.codeguru.com

 

[mgb_phys]

www.stackoverflow.com is the new great programming forum.
You can ask questions, you can even answer them without signing up.
If you do signup there is a reputation system like here to judge people's reply

 

[cam875]

daniweb.com is great

 

[03myersd]

www.vbforums.com

Its speciality is Visual Basic but it has many C, C++, C#, Java, etc. members and their own sub forums.

 

[zyh]

You could use the news groups: comp.lang.c++
This groups is dedicate to C++ language, If you want to discuss Java, there is another comp.lang.java
It could be access by news clients or Google groups.

 

[sameer2blore]

Hi, i m fighting with 3d fem but have done some part of 3d fem for solid cylinder. the stiffness matrix is not coming as it should be. there should be 5 lines in sparse matrix. but it is coming 2 more lines in outer side. and the sparse matrix is near singular or showing badly scaled . anybody can help. anybody can help for assembling the local matrices to global.

 

[ehrenfest]

www.stackoverflow.com is the new great programming forum.
You can ask questions, you can even answer them without signing up.
If you do signup there is a reputation system like here to judge people's reply

I didn't know there was a reputation system here.

 

[mgb_phys]

I didn't know there was a reputation system here.

Well, in a different way. The problem is to have some way of judging the reliability of answers based on the reputation of the poster.

Here you have badges mentor/science advisor/etc and a post count to know if a user is likely to be posting reliable answers. You can also of course read the board for a while to know that if Astronuc posts something about nuclear engineering it will probably be correct, (and if I post something about maths it will probably be wrong!)

It's a little more tricky on a software board because it's harder to judge if an answer is correct without having the background knowledge yourself - in which case you wouldn't need to ask! This is the problem that killed most comp.* groups.
Stackoverflow has an automatic points system where your answer get voted up/down by other members and you gain more moderator powers as your votes balance increases.