C vs C++ ... or whatever language

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Shameless Plug for book I have listed on ebay right now

Inside the Amiga with C Second Edition (383 pages)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/332543506531

thanks

DLH

Hey, good one - this is the book which I read when I took my first baby steps to learn Amiga programming (with the original Kernighan/Ritchie "The 'C' programming language" introducing me to 'C' at the same time). If I remember correctly, Rob Peck's book "Programmer's Guide to the Amiga"  turned out to be the better choice, and not just because it covered so much more of the operating system. These two books, along with the example programs on the Aztec 'C' disks, as well as the early AmigaLibDisks were teaching me how to program my Amiga 500, back in 1987.

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Speaking as a professional Higher Education teacher, this is the best tutorial book for those new to C++ that I've come across.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Accelerated-Practical-Programming-Example-Depth/dp/020170353X

What kind of path to learning and to keep on learning does the book strike, considering that it was published in the year 2000 and has been on sale ever since then?

The many C++ books I bought over the decades were typically geared towards presenting the new shiny language features which had arrived since the last edition. For a beginner, I would hope that the authors would not just introduce the language well (Andrew Koenig - the man's a legend), but also try to provide the reader with the tools to expect and adapt to the changes the language would invariably go through.