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6 Free E-Books on C and C++

This week Microsoft announced that it's working on making C++ better suited for massive parallelism. This follows Google's recent benchmarks that showed that C++ is still faster than most programming languages (at least if you know how to optimize it correctly). Also, Google has been working on incorporating C and C++ support into Chrome.
In other words, C++ is a strong and important language, and will continue to be even in a browser dominated landscape. Here are a few resources for leaning C++, and its predecessor C.
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