Are o reilly books a cool way to start learning c++ ?

They have some ok stuff in their library (C++ in 24 hours by Jesse liberty).

It's a bit out of date, but stroustrup's Programming principles and practices using C++ would be where I'd start.

@SortOfTested ok thanks

O'Reily books are good for everything imo.
They give good code examples, well documented, with great and steady explanations.

I would prefer “C++ Primer”. That book was heavenly after reading some quick learning books.

Most important is to have a small project to use your knowledge on.

Don't just manually copy-paste examples and exercises from a book. Make a color conversion library, a command line utility which draws dicks in ASCII, a GUI for git, whatever.

By coming up with your own project and just using the book as a reference guide, you'll run into questions you wouldn't otherwise have to ask.

@bittersweet lol imagine trapping yourself on a cmd ascii dick recursion