C++ Reference Book

The C++ programming language by Bjarne Stroustrup. ISBN: 0-201-88954-4
Check it up on Amazon...

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C++: The Complete Reference Edition is great it has around 1000 pages and it is nicely organized. The first half is on C and the second half is on C++. Pick it up at Amazon.

For most stuff, the MSDN online docs work fine. For escoterica, I prefer The C++ Programming Language and C++ FAQs.

C++ from scratch by Jesse Liberty''s is basic, but its got all the stuff you need to no.

I have C++ 2nd Edition by Stroustrup, (if thats how you spell his name). It is the definitive definition to the language.

It reads like Greek in places as it defines how the language works, not how it is used, so its perspective is that of an engineering one. If that description isn''t to clear then you''ll get idea how the book is written. That said, it clarifies most of my questions.

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Learning C++, by Eric Nagler covers nearly every C++ construct, though it is starting to get dated (covers Borland C++ v5.0 - boy was that a buggy compiler!)

Many of the teach yourself... type books skip things like

dynamic_cast, mutable, volatile

and is very definitive about overloading precedence and such. If you have never written C or C++ code before, don't buy this. If you alreay have "Learned C++ in 21 Days", buy this and keep learning.
Or at least look up those words in the index & make sure they're in the text.

Hey, those keywords aren't in blue!

Edited by - Magmai Kai Holmlor on July 5, 2000 12:28:09 AM

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Original post by Magmai Kai Holmlor
Hey, those keywords aren''t in blue!

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> It reads like Greek in places as it defines how the language works, not how it is used, so its perspective is that of an engineering one. If that description isn''t to clear then you''ll get idea how the book is written. That said, it clarifies most of my questions.

I kinda have to agree with that, still it''s a very good book. In conjunction with the compiler docs (I''m refering to VC6, I''m sure Borlands and others are just as good) it can answear your most questions. Not very long ago I looked up the keyword ''typename'' in that very book, read about two pages about it (read quickly - every other word or so ) and still after reading those two pages I was clueless so I look in the MSDN docs and read about three lines and it''s all crystal clear at once

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