"Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++"

"Programming is learned by writing programs."
-from the Preface page xxv of Stroustrup's new book on programming using C++.

Programming: Principles and Practices Using C++
by Bjarne Strousrup.

So far the first impression of the book, built from browsing and skimming, is that one could learn the essentials of programming and software construction while using the C++ languages. The book is based on a first year course that Stroustrup taught at Texas A&M University. It appears a lot of work and thought has gone into the course and book.

This is not a typical text book as Stroustrup says, "No. This is not a traditional Computer Science 101 course. It is a book about how to construct working software. ...... It is about programming (or more generally about how to develop software), and as such it goes into more detail about fewer topics than many traditional courses."

I look forward to studying several of the book topics that I have never really used or fully looked at while developing software. As a text book about programming then this may be an excellent book about programming and learning C++ at the same time. We will see how it goes as I work through the book.