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> The 4th edition of the well-known "C++ Primer", with Moo as a new > co-author, will soon be published. It is a > more comprehensive and much longer book. It is also organized more traditionally than "Accelerated C++." "Accelerated C++" is mostly example-driven: It presents problems, shows how to solve them, and introduces language and library features as needed for particular parts of the solutions. Of course the problems are carefully chosen so that the solutions cover the most important parts of the language and library, but that fact is not immediately obvious from the nature of the problems themselves. "C++ Primer" follows the classical approach of treating each part of the language and library separately in a single place. For example, there are chapters on expressions, statements, functions, templates, object-oriented programming, and so on. It is also much more systematic than "Accelerated C++." It is also nearly three times the size. Which of these books you prefer will depend on your learning style more than anything else. If you are willing to read the entire book sequentially, you will probably learn C++ faster from "Accelerated C++" than from "C++ Primer." On the other hand, if you want to see in one place what all the different kinds of statements are, so that you can learn about them all at once, then you will be more comfortable with "C++ Primer." I'm biased, of course, but I believe that either of these books is a better starting point for someone unfamiliar with C than any other book I can think of. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
