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Depending on how familiar you are with C++, there is one book and only one book I recommend for learning it. Burn the rest to keep warm.
The book is Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo
It is mercifully brief, and teaches C++ properly, using the STL, and introducing you more to C++ from a "generic programming" standpoint.
I tell people this - unlike in other languages, in C++ you have a dialogue going with the compiler *and* the CPU. Most languages just let you talk "through them" vicariously to the CPU.
C++ allows you to run computations and such through the compiler, which can then generate the results of said computations in code, which then talks to the CPU. A bit like the house that jack built.
I have a function in one of my projects that's like 3 or 4 pages long of dense code.
It resolves to a few assembly instructions, which vary depending on how you call it.
You can't really do that with other languages.
Learning that is the trick to mastering it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Thanks for the tip, I will definitely take that into consideration. I'm in the place where I just start to understand the power of c++ templating, coming from a c# brackground that's tricky at first.
Right now I started a c++ version of xkcp (available on github, a C implementation of sponge constructions, relative to sha-3 hash functions; I definitely got a thing for this algorithm family). I'll try and find that book to see whether I can grasp what I don't get yet.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Looks like you're headed the right direction. Within templates there are worlds. You can make your compiler make the bed with clever use of templates. This is how you initiate dialogue with the compiler in most cases.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I received the book on yesterday. Thanks for the tip 
I had a quick look on a couple of your recent articles (lexer + the pre-build thing), as well. You got my 5 for both. Did not have time to dive into the code in detail, yet, but there are definitely informations in there for which i'll be grateful in the near future. 
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Thank you. In a little while, I'll have Reggie targeting SQL for matching and stuff. It's already mostly working, it's just some error handling I'm tinkering with at the moment, before I can move on to finishing it out.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Welcome back
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Thanks Mike 
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Welcome back.
You are not alone about quitting smoke. Almost 5 years here. You are right about the proudness and the envy, but good news... the envy drops too and at the end with a simple "You don't really want to start all that crap all over again, do you, idiot?" is more than enough.  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Welcome back.
Thanks
Nelek wrote: "You don't really want to start all that crap all over again, do you, idiot?"
I like this way of presenting things. Concise, and to the point.
Luckily, when I got my sense of smell back, a strong aversion for cold-smoke smell came with it. And remained, so far...
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Hi, welcome back ! Nothing changed here.
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Hi Rage, thanks a lot.
I like to see that good traditions have remained on the Lounge; and bad ones on QA 
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Limited edition = Mag ( magazine )
Food = pie
Flier = Magpie
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It was twenty years ago today, Microsoft taught XP to play! (With apologies to the Beatles  )
Are you, or any of your customers, clients or friends still using XP?
Entropy will win in the end.
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I have an elderly PC, more or less from scrap, that still is running XP. These days I only use it as terminal for the Elves or to toast ROMs, that kind of stuff.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I still have it in two VMs (one clean--but updated with the latest--the other with VS2008, I believe), but neither have been powered on in years.
I still maintain that XP, with the Classic Windows theme, was one of the most usable UIs MS has come up with.
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We probably/maybe have a couple of them in an industrial settings that still use XP (but I might be wrong).
Long product life cycle in aerospace does not agree with software updates when everything is working fine.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I can fully relate to that, just hope they're disconnected.
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Yes, in a VM. It runs an occasionally used Visual FoxPro application.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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It's been going in and out of style
But it was guaranteed to raise a smile
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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One old Latitude with a serial port, runs the software to talk to A-B SLC500s. Used to get a robot cell running. ( This year, got a shrinker up in 2019. )
VM on the newer Dell used to program a head secure multiple for Ford.
Do maintenance on old industrial equipment you need old stuff.
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I coded the screen that comes up when you click My Computer|Manage...
It was a rewrite from the old one, because it sat on top of WMI. It's harder to keep an interface the same than it is to improve on it - that was my takeaway from that. I hated having to duplicate the old UI on the new UI, if that makes sense.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I have a couple of VMs, not connected to the Internet, that use it. My father has a machine that he refuses to upgrade from Windows XP ("if it's not broken, why fix it?")
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I am daily. Development tools dictate it.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Ditto.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Me too!
Entropy will win in the end
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