C++ Books

Time for a Big Bump.

I'd like to add a title or two as well, which even though not C++ specific should be required reading for any serious student (or practitioner) of software development.

• http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...l/-/0135974445
  Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices. Robert C. Martin (Affectionately known as Uncle Robert among software engineers)
• http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...l/-/0131103628 The C Programming Language. Kernighan and Ritchie. C++ is derived from C after all and a lot of C features can still come in very handy.
• Your compiler documentation

I have a great recommendation, this is a cheap book, full colour, and extremely detailed, im from the UK, here its £10.99, so thats about $20 roughly.
Its called C++ In Easy Steps

There's another veru nice book
Thinking In C++,2nd Edition by Bruce Eckel

Im currently Reading

Beginning C++ Game Programming by Michael Dawson

I just started but I really like this book because it goes at an evne pase and after every program explains what each section of source code means does and why it does that.

Sam's Teach yourself C++ in 10 minutes by Jesse Liberty

This book takes you about 10 minutes for each lesson so its good if you are on a busy schedule but 4 me its goes really fast and the chapters are so short its hard to understand some thing. If I had not read Beginning C++ Game Programming first I would have been lost in this book.

*the compiler that comes with Beginning C++ Game Programming is one of the best ive seen.

here is a small list of Free C/C++ programming books. They may help you a bit in programming.
C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3
C Programming Tutorial (K&R version 4)
C Elements of Style
A Beginners C++
C++ Annotations
and many more....

http://www.mycplus.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=46 here is the link to download the books.

noticed some one mentioned about Sams teach yourself c++ in 10 minutes, just wondering why no body recommend its cousin:

Sams teach yourself c++ in 21 days by the same author: Jesse Liberty

a great book for beginners, if you have the time to read through the whole book. It is really detailed and gives tons of good examples.

I'm reading "C++ Primer 4th edition" by Stan Lippman, Josee Lajoie, and Barbara Moo at the moment, it would be categorised as progression to intermediate level of C++ for someone with prior programming experience. Seems like a decent book so far (unlike the previous editions of C++ Primer, or so I've read from reviews at Amazon).

Absolute C++ by Walter Savitch is a pretty good book too. Thats the one that I used back in the days when I was a begginer (and that was a long long time ago).

One of the biggest problems with C++ books older than 1999/2000 is that they do not recognise alot of modern Standard C++ content. A problem commonly found with "revised" books after 1999/2000 (Books which were originally published long before C++ was standardised, but have been updated) is that the Standard C++ content has very much been added as an afterthought, with little or no reflection upon the rest of the book. So many books suffer from this lack of exertion on the part of the author, that these books end up being very unhelpful to someone learning modern C++

C++ really took a whole new direction since the Standard was finalised, and any book which has ignored the progress made by the ISO committee really isn't worth buying for someone who is new to C++.
The comparitively small number of books (sic*) which do follow the direction of C++ are generally found reviewed and rated "Recommended" or "Highly Recommended" at the ACCU website.


*Compared with the vast number of truly awful ones