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    Need a few recomendations

    Well, I have been with c++ for a short time and have a ok grasp of the language. Now i am thinking i really need to pick up a book here for some serious studying.

    I did go through recommendations but none really stuck out to me. there seems to be only basic basic beginner or advanced no in between. I would prefer a book cross intermediate with beginner.

    for if it helps with recommendation.
    things I know:
    php(unrelated...however exposure to a previous language helps....and i have a advanced grip on php...)

    c++ related stuff now:
    cout, cin, include, functions, basic/mid-range oop, variables, arrays, loops, condition statements, constants, file IO, pointers(kinda), and a few other basics....

    now, I mainly need a book that will improve my knowledge and application of these topics as well as show me new topics that will better my c++.

    thanks,
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    There is a sticky about this question.

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    And for good measure here it is.

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    And should you be either a student or a member of ACM (or probably other things too), you may have access to on-line libraries of books, such as Safari. (The O'Reilly thing, not the Apple thing.)

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    READ my post and you would notice i looked there, i did not find one that overly stuck out, they all seemed to just not fit what i was looking for.

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    Since we are the ones who post suggestions on that thread what makes you think we are going to produce anything better now than has already been produced there? I mean we are robots, afterall.

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    because things change and are not in particular always updated and people sometimes post to the peoples questions vs just posting it out there... as dumb as that may sound it happens very often so i have noticed at least.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tabstop View Post
    And should you be either a student or a member of ACM (or probably other things too), you may have access to on-line libraries of books, such as Safari. (The O'Reilly thing, not the Apple thing.)
    thanks i will look into ACM, it seems like a wise place to join.

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    I mentioned "we are robots" to assure you that we pretty much do not change. People here are more likely to call a book someone posts as infantile than actually make a productive post.

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    >> there seems to be only basic basic beginner or advanced no in between.

    If you don't need a basic basic beginner book, then get Accelerated C++. It is not only for "advanced" beginners, it is suitable for any beginner to C++. The caveat is that if you have no programming experience then it might move too quickly for your tastes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daved View Post
    >> there seems to be only basic basic beginner or advanced no in between.

    If you don't need a basic basic beginner book, then get Accelerated C++. It is not only for "advanced" beginners, it is suitable for any beginner to C++. The caveat is that if you have no programming experience then it might move too quickly for your tastes.
    I saw that one too, but i noticed it does not cover templates which from what i hear are important to c++, however i know nothing of these yet really other than they are for generic programing.
    would this really be problematic?

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    templates are pretty simple after you use them a bit. Look at the template tutorial on this site for instance. It does pretty well explaining them.

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    alright accelerated c++ it is, thanks for the all that helped for the input

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    Are you sure it doesn't cover templates? One of the strongest selling points of Accelerated C++ is that it teaches modern C++ rather than C style C++. I think you'll get the better instruction on how to use templated objects from that book over most others. I don't recall what the level of template creation teaching is available, but that might be best left to a separate book after you have finished this one. Creating templates is not a beginner topic.

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    One of the most detailed and Acidemic books is the Deitel series of C++ how to program. Brick of a book and covers more or less all the major aspects of the language. Before I get flammed by Daved I will also say in places it does teach some C-style C++ ( arrays for example - and it does also teach alot of the C-type librarays such has strcpy strtok and strcmp but apart from that it is one of most in-depth books on the market.

    Also has a rich supply of exercises end if each chapter to keep you learning.
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