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I must say, Bruce Eckel is a really good author. "Thinking in C++ 2nd Edition" teaches you how to evolve your current programming skills with Functional Programming to Object-Oriented Programming with C++. It is very rich and full of examples, that are USEFUL too! He is very specific on topics and choses the right one for the right time. There are two volumes to this book.

Thinking in C++, Volume 1: Introduction to Standard C++
Thinking in C++, Vol. 2: Practical Programming
You must read Volume One first and then Volume Two. Volume Two picks up where the first left off with-out skipping one word!.

This is my favorite C++ reference book ("The C++ Programming Language" happens to be my 2nd) and I highly recommend this book if you even have so type of programming background, even if it's no C. In the 2nd chapter, this book even skims through C as well.