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Scott Meyers' Effective C++ books are really good for learning the "right way" to code C++. He has a good intro to c++11 and 14 too, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22800553-effective-moder...

Don't worry about not taking the time to properly learn C++ . It is a huge huge language and trying to learn it all at once from first principles will take you forever. Just try to do things in the most memory safe way possible.

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I don't use C++ anymore - but Scott Meyers' books on C++ were the best investments I could have made back in the early 2000's. He focused on some real pain/productivity points of the language and standard library that made a huge difference in my approach to the problems I was working on.

Effective Modern C++ is a great book but it is in no way an intro to anything. It keeps with tradition of exposing the warts in C++ that you should know about but the issues covered in the newest one are very complex compared to the previous book and are not at all something that someone just learning the language or even just catching up on the newest standards should do.

If you want to catch up on C++11 and parts of C++14 I recommend Stroustrup's A Tour of C++.

I'd probably read the other Effective C++ books (even though they are dated now) before cracking open Effective Modern C++.

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