In college, we used, "Object-Oriented Programming in C++" (third-edition) by Robert Lafore. It covered a good spectrum from beginner concepts to STL, templates, object oriented programming and design, data structures, etc.... I am not sure how well respected it is in the professional community but it got me started. I am looking at it now, it has quite a bit of full examples. Another way that may be useful to see examples and, at the same time, get some GUI experience with C++ is to play around with qt (trolltech.com). They have plenty of partial and full examples on the site. If working with qt, you may want to check out Kdevelop and QTdesigner together as an IDE (if you haven't already). Or use vi. Works either way. $0.02 Damien ----- Original Message ---- From: Mikhail Skobov <russianhippie666 at gmail.com> To: Leif Johnson <leif.t.johnson at gmail.com> Cc: tclug <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:43:55 PM Subject: Re: [tclug-list] c++ help i like the kind of book where you can use the examples to learn as well as the text because its easier for me that way On 1/20/07, Leif Johnson <leif.t.johnson at gmail.com> wrote: I got started in with "C++ How to Program" by Deitel & Deitel. It's a pretty good college-level getting started with C++ kinda book. I guess it depends on what style of book you are looking for. leif On 1/19/07, Mikhail Skobov < russianhippie666 at gmail.com> wrote: Hi, do any of you guys know any C++ books for beginners because i was thinking about starting to learn the language but don't know where to start, thanks. Mikhail _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070124/9ee0b47c/attachment.htm