Buying a C++ book

[Thousandth Beam]

I'm thinking about purchasing a beginners guide book to C++ (hopefully up to date and quite modern). I already know quite a fair bit of the basics, but there are some holes in my knowledge of even the really simple stuff (mainly syntax, keywords etc.) I think it would be better to have a clear, structured reference then to have to sieve through the loads of small snippits of code scattered around the internet. Anyone that programs in C++ got any good book recommendations? I'm hoping not everybody's self taught...

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[steve5451]

My dad has a REALLY old C++ book, along with DOS stuff and other Operating System things. :o

[Blastdown]

I found this link recently:

Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days

I don't know how reliable it is, it appears to be copied from a book you can get off Amazon.
Might want to give that a try before spending money.

[Visage]

Books suck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMx_G05cqYI

This guy is awesome. He also has a game programming tutorial but you should do it after this one. His game programming one is like 160 parts and this one is like 80 so you learn a lot.

[Tom]

^^Above post.

[blaman]

Do not get any books with a title like:

Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days

...ever

As for myself, I don't really have any knowledge in C++. However I may start learning it or .net sometime next year.
So far I have taught myself Lua (Minus some lower level things in the language, I had no need for them at the time) and then Java, i'm still learning some things in Java though.

And I agree with Visage. That guy is awesome.

[Kalphiter]

Do not get any books with a title like:
...ever

Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours
 

[Skullfury]

Its best to just learn off of the internet.
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/introduction/
I used this to learn the syntax.

[Thousandth Beam]

Ok thanks guys. I'll be sure to use these resources.

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