Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C++ Programming Language and C++11 to C++23 Standards

Was really informative and a lot of the things found in C++ are also found in HTLM and JavaScript.

This book happened to be the one to keep my interest when learning "Modern C++" amongst a stack of C++ books I have. It is concise, on the threshold of terse, with its examples giving the minimum to show the syntax and semantics being metered out in the chapter. This leads to quick progress and not a lot of boredom or fatigue many programming tomes can induce.I feel that it covers the healthy side of this complex language and the later standards chapter ("Modern") would be great for someone coming back to C++ after a detour. You will likely venture out from here to either a thick tome of a book or the various more specialized and supporting books but I don't think this one will leave my close shelf for a while.I think the title is easy to misunderstand. This is not a beginning programming book, it's a beginning C++ book. If you don't have a foundational understanding of OOP already it would be a confusing book at best.. and I would shy people away from learning C++ as an early language to start with.

I came across this book after already purchasing recent modern C++ books and needing help to methodically learn what's new since I left programming C++ (using ISO C++ 98). After loading the examples from Github, I'm very impressed with the available projects. I told myself that it would be worth buying the book if I could understand this code with the new syntax of modern C++.Indeed, the book serves as sort of a bullet list for me to review and confirm what I already know about C++ and gently introduce new concepts such as "auto," the new "for" loop, the "move" constructor, etc.Once done reading this book, I plan to re-visit to focus more on the new stuff I skip the first time. With some basic understanding of the new syntax, I can now get to learn more in-depth books, such as "C++ Primer 5th Edition" ()S Lippman et al.), Discovering Modern C++ (Peter Gottschling), or C++20 STL Cookbook (Bill Weinman).Thank you, Slobodan Dmitrovic, for this great starter book!

I don't know why I was always apprehensive about learning C++. I had C in college, and C# didn't really click in later years. I like Python, but without a good GUI other than through bindings, I didn't really want to get into it deeply. Anyway, I tend to follow good instructors, and this author makes C++ seem fairly easy.

If you are just starting out with C++ this book will get you along your way. It provides a good understanding of the basics to include a bit of a deeper dive into the low-level concepts. A good book to immerse yourself in for a long weekend as a beginner.