I have and make frequent use of the Stroustrup book. It is an excellent introduction and reference to the C++ language. To really take advantage of the C++ language in writing better and coding faster you'll need to learn a lot more about STL than Stroustrup provides however. I like Nicolai Josuttis' "The C++ Standard Template Library", which a great reference to the what and how of STL. After you've adsorbed the contents of these two books you will be writing solid and efficient modules, but before you want to start putting things together to build large applications you should get "Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides. There is a recent release of the book that uses Java for all the example code, get the original release (copyright 1995) with the C++ examples. Grant Q -----Original Message----- From: Darrell Cormier [mailto:linuxdev@sptc.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:10 PM To: susE-Linux Subject: [SLE] C++ Books? I know this has been addressed on this list before, but please forgive me for asking again. I could not find the posts. What is a excellent book on C++? I have programmed (minimally) in C++ years ago, and am about to dive in again and want the best reference/tutorial I can find. I am looking at: *"C++ Programming Language Special Edition " by *Bjarne Stroustrup which sounds like a real good one, but I would like to hear others experiences and opinions. Thanks, Darrell Cormier -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com