Olivier Langlois's blog

This book is both a text book for learning C++ and a reference book to consult whenever tricky C++ interogations arise. I would qualify the writting style as academic and very dense in details. It has the merit to be very accurate and to cover almost every aspects of the programming language but in the same time, it is the very same reason why not a lot of people that I know went through the book from one cover to the other. This book is for serious reading and is not a fun easy reading before going to sleep. The writting style might intimidate people that have never had experience for C++. For that reason, I would recommand newbies to look elsewhere for a first book to be introduced to C++ Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example from Andrew Koenig would be a good suggestion. However, for any intermediate to expert programmers, this book is a must. To me, reading this book after few years of C++ usage helped me to fully integrate all the details of the concepts that I was already using on a daily basis and this had the effect of bringing my C++ understanding to a new level.