C++ Primer Plus (6th Edition)

Welcome to C++! This exciting language, which blends the C language with support for object-oriented programming and for generic programming, became one of the most important programming languages of the 1990s and continues strongly in the 2000s. Its C ancestry brings to C++ the tradition of an efficient, compact, fast, and portable language.
Its object-oriented heritage brings C++ a fresh programming methodology, designed to cope with the escalating complexity of modern programming tasks. Its template features bring yet another new programming methodology: generic programming.This triple heritage is both a blessing and a bane. It makes the language very powerful, but it also means there’s a lot to learn.