Professional C++, 5th Edition Paperback – 22 Mar. 2021

This is exactly what you want. I'm a developer with decades of years of C++ experience and it worked for me. Yet at the same time I can see it would work for someone with little experience too. The main difference is the speed of reading.It's a big book. Really big. But you couldn't really cover the subject matter if it wasn't that big. It is a sensible size for what it needs to do. I read on Kindle and I think you wouldn't want to try and read this on paper.The sections at the end on patterns and software engineering methodologies and debugging are a nice extra for your undergrad reader. If you've been there done that you can chop a few hundred pages off. Or skim for a nice summary of the current state of the field. Things do change.With something so great it seems almost churlish to criticize but I'll mention a few small niggles...It is quite module based which is terribly C++ 20. But few compilers support modules properly, almost as if the compiler manufacturers weren't very keen on the design. Perhaps compilers will catch up, or perhaps we will all decide it wasn't a very good idea in the first place.I tire of foo and bar and animal classes. Can't we have more imaginative examples? Planetoids and black holes, water and waves, something a bit more varied.I would like some more information on the internals of classes. I want to know the overhead of a vector or a small wstring. Yes implementation dependent but useful.But don't let my niggles put you off. This is an excellent book and worthy of five stars. At the very least.

Very thorough and comprehensive text.

the info so far is great, well written, accurate code snippets with some tech know how to back it up, it is however on the cheapest, thinnest paper. so thin in fact that the print comes through from the other side

Easy to read, but written so well to make you understand the key principals

comprehensive and well written study of the C++ language