[glopal]

Hey, I'm a high school student who has a bit of programming knowledge under my belt, my first and favorite language I learned was C++, but it was very basic, like just the fundementals, loops variables, read write, etc. Then some VB 5, really crappy class, not up to date at all, but i enjoyed it, vb is easier to make programs that have some actual use, but its not a very powerful language.

So this coming up semester im going into java, but i dont expect much out of it, so i want to take my educated into my own hands. I'm interested in learning some more C++, so what book/s do you guys recommend for someone who already knows the programming fundementals, and basic c++ syntax? Or even a book for beginners, as long as it gets to more advanced stuff like that openGL stuff

[thejeremy]

Hi glopal,

I'm a CS major and my first encounter with C++ was in my data structures class so I had to pick it up as I went along and I didn't learn it as well as I felt I should. I ended up reading The Complete Idiot's Guide to C++ by Paul Snaith and it really helped clarify things for me. Since you know some basics, you might be able to skip a good quarter of it.
The book starts with basics and covers multidimensional and parallel arrays, functions, structures, building classes, overloading operators, overloading functions, file handling, OOP, inheritance, and polymorphism. If you know what all of these are, then don't get this book
I don't know of a book that covers both C++ semantics and OpenGL under one roof. I have the OpenGL Programming Guide Fifth Edition, otherwise known as "the red book" to my graphics class. It covers OpenGL in detail, but I believe it expects you to have a working knowledge of C++.

Hope this helps.

[PennKen2009]

I used the book, Problem Solving with C++, The Object of Programming. This was my textbook my first semester at Penn State. The author is Walter Savitch, and I think he does an excellent job. ISBN# is 0321268652

Very easy to follow, but it goes deep into C++