How to learn C++ for the purposes of debugging
<p>Some background: My job involves maintaining a large multi-threaded multi-process C++ / C# application, and so I'm often tasked with understanding access violations, memory leaks, heap curruption issues and the like.</p>

<p>I quite enjoy this, and I've amassed quite a good understanding of various low level concepts, but the trouble is that <strong>I don't program in C++</strong>, and aside for the purposes of maintenance I don't really intend to.</p>

<p>What I mean by that is that if I ever need to develop something then at the company I work at the best choice is C# (more developers, other apps also in C# means better interops), so its not that I don't program in C++, it's just that whenever I do program in C++ it will be <strong>purely</strong> for the purpose of learning C++, and <strong>so I want to get the most out of it</strong>.</p>

<p>My view is that "Teach yourself C++" books and the like aren't very suitable as they focus too much on getting things done - there are usually many ways of doing things and so they tend to pick one method, so when I'm presented with some code that does things a different way I'm stuffed (e.g. a book teaches MFC, I then get presented with some ATL code and the book hasn't even taught me what ATL and MFC are, let alone how to recognise that what I'm looking at is different!)</p>

<p>I'm really looking for teach yourself C++, <strong>with the emphasis on understanding other peoples code</strong>.</p>
