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Can you maybe share some paid/unpaid resources to learn C++ from scratch for someone coming from Java and JS?


Kate has a PluralSight course which I have watched (not really to learn C++ but to see her approach) and that seemed decent to me, although of course I can't vouch for it having taught what you'd need coming from Java and JS, not least because my background is far more polyglot including Scheme and the Standard ML for example.

I definitely think Bjarne Stroustrup's book about his own language isn't very good, even in later editions (which correspond to a more modern language) and so I would avoid buying that, I'm not sure it's a good defence of the language as an idea and I'm sure it isn't an effective tutorial, even if not for being out-of-date.




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