The points made in this (excellent I thought) presentation are very subtle and I'm not sure I would have come across them before organically. Because the behavi

The points made in this (excellent I thought) presentation are very subtle and I'm not sure I would have come across them before organically. Because the behavior outlined in the presentation tends toward the exception, it's more efficient to learn it by reading. Effective C++ is a great place to start if you are trying to hone your C++ skills (practically every C++ programmer in the industry considers it mandatory). Keep in mind though, that knowing about evaluation order, and stack frames, and sequencing, and linker optimizations is all great and all, but I definitely consider it icing on the cake for a working software engineer for most positions. If you're a senior guy, sure, you should know this stuff. But the first thing to do is learn to actually write programs well. Authoring your own projects and contributing to open source is a great way to do it.