Recommended books/tutorials for learning C++

[master]

For those who wants some good indian authors for better understandings.
If you need good command on pointers. Use pointer's in c by yashwnat karnetkar. For other topics may refer to Balaguru swami's ANSI C. Alternatively Let Us C++ by yashwant karnetkar

[Alvaro]

Why would you want an Indian author? Who cares where the author is from if the book is good?

[master]

Ya Right Alvaro! I post that thing because sometimes users want to read native authors and materials in native languages. I posted those books because I read those books and that is good for beginners to intermediate users. Those Books in English(U.S.)

[Kanshu]

I don't know if anybody here is aware of librarything.com. It's a site for listing the books in your bookshelf. You can put your comments on books and read about what others are saying as well. And it is all non-intrusive.

Anyway, FYI. I took the liberty of incorporating the link to my C/C++/C# library in my signature so anybody can take a look at what I mean.

By the way, librarything.com is not a site for downloading books. It's just social network of bookworms who have lots and lots of books.

[Alexanders01]

My recommendation for people new to programming who are wanting to get into C++ is "C++ Primer Plus" (Fifth Edition) by Stephen Prata. It makes sure to often address many issues a fresh programmer might run in to (even if it does not think they will), making it fairly good for new people while still accessible, if somewhat simplistic, for advanced users. Bruce Eckel's book, which has already been mentioned (and better yet, is completely free), is also very good, though I found it more complex and in-depth.

[nonnie]

For those who have little or no programming experience at all, you can go to:

http://www.krashcourse.com/C++

The software/ebook is entitle C++ Basics for Visual Learners and discusses the basic concepts to C++ like variables, functions, loops, and decision statements. The book doesn't go into advanced topics such as reading and writing data to files. So, if you are looking for something more advanced then this wouldn't be for you but it's a great supplemental guide for those who need help understanding the basic fundamentals of C++.

Herbert Schildt "C++: The Complete Reference" is a good book for more advanced topics as others have stated.

[Dale.Turley]

What I'm planning to do is use several books.

(Wrox) - Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2005 - the first chapter (up until Windows programming) gives you a great basic idea of C++ from variables, decisions, looping, classes, program structure etc but misses out a lot of the standard template library functions, i came away with a thorough 'basic' understanding of C++ programs. Then before it got to the Windows programming section i started reading;

(Walter Savitch) - Absolute C++. Which walks you through the basics again but with more detail (i skimmed through a lot of the first couple of chapters) but then gets into linked lists - STL and patterns etc. So alot of the same as in the first book, but in alot more detail - with very good practice exercises. (I'm currenly at this level)

Then back to Ivor Hortons C++ 2005. Start with the basic windows programming section (using the API, MFC and Windows forms if you're interested) then it gets involved with basic database access and writing your own DLL's and a bit of graphics.

Then I'll start to read the C++ In Depth books mentioned earlier - these include quite advanced features of C++ not covered in the other books and network programming etc.

Sounds like quite a lot, but i do around and hour or two a day and am flying through them.
Hope these help.

[ventsyv]

Try putting what you've learned in practice. I promise you that's the best way to learn. Sometimes I tend to lean towards academic learning, reading alot of theory. You'll learn, but the best way is to put it in practice.

[alvinpd]

Thinking in C++ by Bruce Eckel is a great book. You can download it for free. Very useful for beginners and advanced programmers.

[cholasimmons]

Dev-CPP - a free and very useful C++ compiler
(a little off the topic of tutorials and books, but still good information)

wxDevC++ - a free and improved free and useful C++ compiler
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[Wizard]

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[Mando baget45]

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[robertpeter]

For c++ programming Balaguruswami is the best book for initial level for learn c++.
Windows Visualization Programming with C/C++ is also very good book if you want to do programing related to the visualization. Publisher of this book is McGraw.You can also refer C++ in 1 Hour a Day by jesse liberty.This all books are very good and writen in very easy language so Beginer's can understand and apply.

[Cohiba]

Any book that is friendly to beginners AND is available free in PDF format? Not looking for a physical book since I plan to put it on my iPad to read on my free time.

Thanks.

[UNEEQ]

Hi everyone im a newbie when it comes to programing. I have a DEV-CPP compile which i dont know how it works. i watch afew episodes of programing on YOUTUBE but thats about it. im very interested in programing. can someone just please walk me through the purpose of the compiler and how it works please. thanx