[gab00n]

http://www.techbooksforfree.com/ccpp.shtml

[Timothypir2]

You only NEED an teacher for the loops and variables at least I needed one but at the time I was 9
I ended up with a VERY spoty education
I wouldsugjest reading and entire sieries of books the best place to start "I think" is here http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

[C.Ingram]

Search for "Thinking in C++" and "Beej's Guide to Network Programming".

[M4A1]

Originally posted by Timothypir2
You only NEED an teacher for the loops and variables at least I needed one but at the time I was 9
I ended up with a VERY spoty education
I wouldsugjest reading and entire sieries of books the best place to start "I think" is here http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

You started to learn C++ when you were 9 years old? Isn't that young?

[Timothypir2]

Ya Well I said I got a spotty education

[M4A1]

What do you mean you got a "spotty education"

[Timothypir2]

I wrote spagetty code without comments and didn't know what a switch statment was

[Techie184]

I can't believe nobody mentioned http://cprogramming.com/ or The Complete Idiot's Guide to C++ . The idiot's guide is easy to understand, as is the cprogramming.com tutorials. Also, cprogramming.com also has other C++ stuff on the site.

[ever_thus]

I found "C++ how to program" by Deitel & Deitel very useful. They don't expect you to be a techie while not babying the reader and have a very good layout, making sure you get a good grasp of the basics before moving on. And as for practical experience; they don't have many problems you can work on, but they do demonstrate almost every concept through actual code (sometimes more than once).

[furtivefelon]

mmm.. i don't like any book that seems like a text book.. my idea of learning programming language is to build a software as you learn.. that way, when your done, you can have a piece of simple software to play with.. and only use the book as a reference to what you what to do.. doing exercise after each chapter is just a waste of time..