Best book for C++?

[Hayato Iriumi]

I'm a software engineer with 6 years of experience. I know what programming
is about, but never had a chance to get into C++, and I'm picking it up now.
I'm looking for a book for someone who already has programming background. I
don't want to have to go through what is a class or Hello World type of
thing.

Can anyone suggest a good book for C++? I am interested in both managed and
unmanaged C++ programming.

TIA

 

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

I'm a software engineer with 6 years of experience. I know what
programming is about, but never had a chance to get into C++, and I'm
picking it up now. I'm looking for a book for someone who already has
programming background. I don't want to have to go through what is a
class or Hello World type of thing.

Can anyone suggest a good book for C++? I am interested in both
managed and unmanaged C++ programming.

Managed C++: My advice would be to wait a year, or at least until the
Whideby beta is widely available. The new C++/CLI syntax is far more
powerful and sensible than the VC7/7.1 "managed extensions for C++".

Unmanaged C++: "Accelerated C++" by Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo. That
book teaches C++, not "Visual C++". There are tons of "Visual C++" books
that try to teach you how to use Visual Studio and the VC++ libraries such
as MFC and ATL. I wouldn't recommend any of them myself, but probably some
of them are OK.

"Thinking in C++" by Bruce Eckel is reputed to be a good book, and the
complete text of it is available online at

http://www.mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html


-cd

 

[Hayato Iriumi]

Hello, Carl. Thank you very much for your suggestion. I will check the books
out.

If you don't mind, could you explain why I would want to wait for Whidbey
for managed C++? What kind of powerful features will be added? I guess doing
managed code in C++ is not worth right now from what I hear from you. Well,
after all it's the .NET Framework we are programming against, so why not use
C# or VB .NET, right?

 

[Nishant S]

Hello Hayato

See http://blog.voidnish.com/index.php?p=11 for why you might want to wait
for C++/CLI

--
Regards,
Nish [VC++ MVP]
http://www.voidnish.com /* MVP tips tricks and essays web site */

 

[Lars-Inge Tønnessen]

If you don't mind, could you explain why I would want to wait for Whidbey
for managed C++? What kind of powerful features will be added? I guess

doing

Here is a good article.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/05/VisualC2005/default.aspx



Regards,
Lars-Inge Tønnessen
www.larsinge.com