What is the best book to teach C++

[Concrete Geist]

Topic speaks for itself.

[MandK_10]

There are several good book out there, but I have two recommendations for you.
If you want to spend some money go with "C++ How to Program" '3rd Edition' by Deitel and Deitel. This is a text book and runs >$70 but in my opinion a very good book. (I have their 2nd ed and it is pretty good, but they improved some things in the 3rd ed.)

If you do not want to spend money and dont mind using an electronic format (or have a printer that you dont mind using to print off hundreds of pages) go with Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in C++" located hereThinking in C++ (http://www.mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html) This book does a great job of covering the aspects of OOP as well as C++ programming.

Do a search at Amazon and you can see what is available and view the reviews of other readers.

Mike

[Jacqel]

SAMS Teach Yourself C++ helped me out HEAPS when I was learning, but when uni kicked up its pace there wasn't enough.

You really need a teaching book (like above) and a reference book like "C++ Master Reference" which gives an example of everything!

You'll also need some C++ book that talks about system calls if you want to effectively program over linux/unix.

Go to www.cprogramming.com (http://www.cprogramming.com) and have a read

[[Mystik_Cool]]

For me (and for my teacher ! lol), the best book is "C++ from the beginning", by Jan Skansholm, ed. Addison-Wesley.

This is only about C++ (not about C), and you can find everything in it (from the beginning, as the title said...)

Hope you'll like it :)

[klamath]

I thought Thinking in C++ was really good.