   good books on how to learn C or C++
  hello, i am just wondering if there are any good books i should get on C/C++ to learn the basics, how to learn it form a newbies point of view. ThanksStephen   
  here is a free internet tutorial to learn C++. Here;  I liked what I saw from C++: A Dialog which is legally free on the internet.   ;  In addition to "C++: A Dialog," "Thinking in C++" is freely available online as well. I don't like cplusplus.com.   ;  I recently purchased "Programming in C" by Stephen Kochan and "C++ Primer" by Lippman et al. Both seem quite good at first glance.   ;  I thought that 'Beginning C++ Through Game Programming' was a good book for learning C++.   ;  For the languages themselves, each has a single book that is head and shoulders above everything else, at least IMHO:For C, "The C Programming Language, 2nd. Ed." (aka "The White Book", "The New Testament", "K&R2"), by Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie. The standard by which all programming books should be judged. Covers tutorial and reference in a book about 1/2" thick. Expensive, but worth every penny. Co-authored by the inventor.For C++, "Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example" by Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Moo. A little slow at the outset, if you're an experience programmer, but it teaches C++ as C++, rather than C, then ++.Of course, from a game programming point of view, that gets you only the barest of starts, as both books teach the standard language. IOW, no graphics, no sound; console I/O only. You can still write simple games, of course, but you'll need to spread your wings a bit to get "real" games written.   