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Learn C++ in 20 minutes! If you try to write C++ code armed with this minimal guide, boy, are you in trouble. I would suggest to buy "Accelerated C++" (http://www.acceleratedcpp.com/) instead, which is a great (but short) book to make the leap to C++.

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As the article's author, I'm somewhat biased :-), but I respectfully disagree. If you try to learn C++ armed with only this guide, sure. I certainly didn't write it as a comprehensive guide. But doing is the only real way to learn a language, and I think that for a C programmer, this might be a good place to dive in and start trying things.

Another vote for Accelerated C++. Great book, brings readers up-to-speed quickly on a very useful subset of C++ features.

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