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Welcome to a whole new world. Get Michael Lopp's "Managing Humans", start thinking about the business value of what you are doing instead of just the technology, and at some point you may want to read Peter Senge's "The Fifth Discipline". You have 3 priorities you need to keep in balance: 1) your financial responsibilities to the company, 2) taking care of your people, and 3) doing the right thing for the customers.

Good luck,

Beware: If all you can do is code there's a great chance your job will end up in India. You have to have broader skills now to be competitive. Instead of taking classes in an area you obviously know well (i.e. coding), why not take more general business classes or in the sciences so you can use your coding skills as a tool to solve critical problems rather than being a coder waiting for a problem to get assigned to you? 99% of the people you will need to work with aren't coders and if you don't have any general skills you won't be able to work with them as effectively.

Good luck,
-c

Agreed. It isn't meant for raw beginners but it is still the best reference for the language and essential for a hard core C++ programmer to have as a reference.

Thanks for adding the Lippman Object Model book. Another very worthwhile book to have if someone wants to be a real C++ guru.

I would recommend the following books:
Alexandrescu - "Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied"
Meyers - "Effective C++" and "More Effective C++"
Stroustrup "The C++ Programming Language"
Stepanov - "Elements of Programming"
Koenig - "Accelerated C++"
Koenig - "Ruminations on C++" (A little out of date but still a good read)

Good luck, C++ has evolved into a large and complex language. You may want to read Stroustrups "The Design and Evolution of C++" on the side to understand how it developed.

-c