Re: [Dev-C++] OT: A Good C++ Book ?

[Watson D. <wa...@wa...>]

Sunday, January 25, 2004, 9:00:20 AM, you wrote:

SB> Hi, I have been learning C++ for about 4 months now from online free
SB> resources and i feel that i would like to gain a better understanding
SB> of the language and become more advanced at it. I know 4 months isn't
SB> much time but I have done programming in PHP before and grasped the
SB> basics of C++ pretty easily. I am simply asking people from the list if
SB> they could recommend any GOOD C++ programming books that are not Visual
SB> Studio, because i would like  to program on Linux as well as Windows
SB> without having to do major  changes to the code, so will be using the
SB> gcc compiler all the time. It would also be nice if the book could
SB> explain how to program using  sockets ( I know they are different for
SB> Windows and Linux ). I am doing this more as a hobby at the moment and
SB> maybe later on take a course at  uni in it. Im not too bothered about
SB> how much the book may cost, all i  am really interested in is the
SB> clarity of the book and how far i can go with it ( I want to go far :)
SB> ).

I'm just picking up C++ myself (after years of C, Pascal, Basic, Fortran,
Tal, PL/SQL, Cobol, Scobol, Clips, Clipper and... uh... others) and here
are the books I've read and liked so far:

The C++ Programming Language by Stroustrup
   It's kinda like the Bible of C++.

Thinking in C++ by Eckel.
   You can either buy this or you can read it online for free.

Effective C++ by Meyers.
   This one cleared up a lot of questions I didn't even know I had.  I was
   making all sorts of mistakes with my objects (like not creating copy
   constructors and things like that) until I read this book.


HTH.

Watson (the pencil neck) Davis