[_mlbt]

I personally recommend starting with Stroustrup’s other book…A Tour of C++. It really brings you up to speed quickly with what you need to know in the language without a lot of excess fluff. It’s also very up to date compared to other books.

[justinhj]

I love that format, more languages should do it. One of the few pure language books I read cover to cover.

[_mlbt]

I agree!

Another approach I really like are interactive “notebook” style language tutorials. Swift Playgrounds is an excellent implementation of this.