Agreed as to overall lack of focus, I was annoyed that until chapter 7 there really wasn't much C to speak of, and the last chapters where he finally got into i

Agreed as to overall lack of focus, I was annoyed that until chapter 7 there really wasn't much C to speak of, and the last chapters where he finally got into interesting things, were far too short. That said I did learn a few tricks, and generally appreciated the books overall tone of you don't need to do crazy pointer stuff/malloc/realloc in C in general. If that makes any sense, have you read the Embedded TDD in C book by Pragmatic Programmers? http://pragprog.com/book/jgade/test-driven-development-for-embedded-c http://pragprog.com/book/jgade/test-driven-development-for-e... What C++ books would you recommend specifically? I find most to not really be of much help in straight C given the differences of the two languages (basically huge reliance on the standard library etc..).