Suggestions for learning C++?

[visionkid]

http://www.mindview.net/Books/TICPP/...ngInCPP2e.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...osim/cboard-20 no specific java terminology. Will compile fine.

[provocating]

Well no matter if you are learning VB, C#, Java or C++ I think everyone should start by reading this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Prog.../dp/020161622X

I cannot say enough good things about this book. It is not a technical book so much as a "good practices" book. It will also give you plenty of motivation and insight.

[strider51]

Originally Posted by provocating

Well no matter if you are learning VB, C#, Java or C++ I think everyone should start by reading this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Prog.../dp/020161622X

I cannot say enough good things about this book. It is not a technical book so much as a "good practices" book. It will also give you plenty of motivation and insight.

Probably the most important book a programmer could read. I ask candidates if they've read the book, and if I get a yes with some interesting insights, it's almost a no brainier.

Also once you start looking into more code: Martin Fowler: Refactoring
http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Im...9947447&sr=1-1

The refactoring book is also a must have for any programmer.


As far as learning c++, I agree with some of the previous posts. Start out making some data structures, like a linked list class. Then make a driver or program that uses your linked list. This is basically CS 101, but its a great way to start out and create something. Learning about pointers will help.

I'm not a huge codeProject fan, but here is the first linked list site I found.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/linked_list.aspx

There is tons of help on stackoverflow too: http://stackoverflow.com/

[lerxst2112]

Some C++ books I recommend. It's a bit of a necro, but since someone linked to here I figured better to keep all of the book recommendation in one place.

As mentioned by a few above, I also recommend The Pragmatic Programmer. Good common sense ideas to take to heart.

Thinking in C++ is a fairly decent book, and it's free to download. The first C++ book I read many years ago.
http://mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html

The Effective C++/STL books are very good. They aren't really "teach you C++" books, but more of a "Now that you think you know C++, here are some really good tips about how not to shoot yourself in the foot quite so often"
http://www.aristeia.com/books.html

C++ Gotchas is another book about how to do things the right way and why. If I had to pick one book I'd stick with Effective C++, but this is good after you've read that.
http://www.semantics.org/cpp_gotchas/index.html

Guru of the Week is also good reading. He wrote a couple books on it as well called Exceptional C++. I think the guru stuff covers most/all of that.
http://herbsutter.com/gotw/

C++ Coding Standards is another best practices type of book.
http://www.gotw.ca/publications/c++cs.htm

Writing Solid Code is an old book, and you'll probably only find it used or maybe at a library, but I think it is very good at describing how to write code with less bugs. I use the techniques described in the book every time I write code, and I am confident I write better code because of it. It's a lot of common sense (to me at least) stuff, but many programmers I know ignore these simple things and have tons of bugs because of it.
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Solid-.../dp/1556155514

Code Complete also has some really good best practices type information. I haven't read the second edition but I know others that have and they said it was still good.
http://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-.../dp/0735619670