[OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-12-20, Neil Cerutti <neilc at norwich.edu> wrote:
> On 2011-12-20, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:

>> Would anybody care to recommend online C++ resources for a long
>> time C and Python user?  (I'm also familiar with Smalltalk,
>> Scheme, FORTRAN, bash, Javascript, and a variety of assembly
>> languages.)
>
> The best book I know of to get you writing useful C++ quickly is
> Accelerated C++ by Koenig/Moo. It's not free online, though. It
> starts with an excellent introduction to using the STL and works
> it's way slowly down the abstraction ladder to using pointers and
> inheritance last of all.

Oops. I should have mentioned this is for embedded systems programming
so templates in general (and STL in particular) are probably off the
table.

> Iterators turn out to be an excellent starting point for learning
> pointers, though since you already know C that won't do you as
> much good.

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