I'd suggest the course reader from Stanford's CS 106L, authored by Keith Schwarz. It brought me upto speed on major parts of STL, the C++ object model, operator

I'd suggest the course reader from Stanford's CS 106L, authored by Keith Schwarz. It brought me upto speed on major parts of STL, the C++ object model, operator overloading, functors, etc. within a week. (Of course that's assuming you have a prior programming background).