Chapter Two, ALL THE BOOKS

For this post I recommend the TLDR version at the bottom.

So, the first step to learning is to find a teacher.

Turns out books work well. So here is our light reading list:

Accelerated C++ (I'm hoping they really do mean accelerated because I'm tired of having to hear about
                             variables and functions and why we use them. I already know two languages and
                             relearning the basics can get annoying.)

Effective C++ (This book is recommended by almost everyone who's read it, the most notable of which is
                         my idol and inspiration for starting a studio Team Meat programmer Tommy Refenes. That
                         man is a genius and if you haven't played Super Meat Boy, buy it and play it.)

More Effective C++ (Not quite more of the same but it's a sequel in the same sense that Die Hard 2: Die
                                 Harder is. Basically we're going to "Die Harder" when we read this.)

So I've only got three textbooks to read. No big deal.
     This is going to suck.

The reading plan so far is to skim my way through the first one because I assume it will be similar enough to Java that I can learn the more complicated bits and be done with it.

Then to have the next two books finished within a week. Which seems ambitious but you go big or you go home when you're living a Disney film.

So while you're reading this I'll be doing reading of my own.

If it makes you feel better I apologize for the high level of boring in this post but it's hard to make reading textbooks funny/exciting. Hopefully next time I'll have something more exciting to show you.

-Mat

TLDR; GET BOOKS. READ BOOKS. LEARN GOOD.