Recommended books for learning the c++ language

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Greetings,

First of all, i'm not sure to whether this is the right place to ask this question but i'll give it a go anyways.

Neither am i sure if i researched enough, however i was not able to find what i seeked.

Now to my question:

For the next few month's i'm not on work neither am i in school, therefore i thought i wanted to learn some programming - must spend my time on something. I have a very basic knowledgement to .lua and .XML, however i would really like to learn C++

I payed for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, would this be an appropriate editor to use? I believe i could do all the coding without using the IDE? If i create an empty project and code like in any other Editor?

Now if the above is correct, i'd like to know which books is considered "the best" for a beginner, i read tons of sites all saying different books to learn from. I bought the book - C++ Primer Plus 6th edition which i'm sure will help me learning the language at some point but my question goes to: Is that the right book to begin with, or is there other books you can recommend first?

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fRodzet

Posted 22-Apr-13 3:54am

fRodzet

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In addition to the valuable tips given by OriginalGriff, which I fully agree to, you might want to take a look at the list in this CodeProject article:

Useful Reference Books[^]

Posted 22-Apr-13 4:14am

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fRodzet 22-Apr-13 10:20am

Thanks! I found both solutions useful! :)

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-22T04:04:00

"I payed for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, would this be an appropriate editor to use?"
Yes - it will work fine.

"I believe i could do all the coding without using the IDE?"
You could, but that defeats the purpose of buying and installing VS - it will help you do the work in many, many ways.

As far as books go, I'll say what I always say: buy a book in your native language, that doesn't have multiple exclamations marks, "in XX days", or "for dummies" in the title. Then read it all the way through, doing the exercises. You'll be fine.