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Is it a bad idea to learn from Stroustrup's 'Principles'?

• rramadass 4y ago
  No, it is a great book to get started with C++ if you already know programming. Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34233688 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34233688
• zabzonk 4y ago
  as someone that has done a lot of commercial C++ teaching in his time, i would say that this is one to avoid for a beginning programmer. stroustrup is not, imho, one of the worlds great teachers, and i would not recommend C++ as a first programming language. more experienced programmers should go with TC++PL.
  • boppo1 4y ago
    Interesting. I'm sort-of experienced (never pro, but lots of little projects in JS & Python. I got Principles to try and fill in gaps in my basic knowledge & so far it seems like it has been helping. I'm a little over halfway through. What else would you reccommend?
    • zabzonk 4y ago
      josuttis's books on the standard library and templates are very good