Links - itzjac/cpplearning GitHub Wiki
BOOKS
Stroustrup, the best introductory course by the creator of the C++ language and experienced professor art TAMU (https://www.tamu.edu/) Stroustrup begginers tutorials
Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book Special Edition
ARTICLES
The decent to C, a great article explaining how C and C++ differs from high level languages like Java, Python, Ruby or C#.
The Basics of C programming, How Stuff works
Programming languages, the history
How does a computer work? Great explanation about the assemble language, the binary system
The top 10 programming languages 2014, great to see how languages age
How users see developers, Linux World!
Bjarne Stroustrup - Object Oriented Programming without Inheritance
A Tour to Modern C++ (C++11, 14)
What – if anything – have we learned from C++? by Bjarne Stroustrup @ Curry On/PLE 2015
History and spirit of C and C++ - Olve Maudal
OPTIMIZATION
Intel Intrisics Guide, great reference!
TUTORIALS
A very complete beginners course covering several of the most used features of the C++ language
C++ Super faq, summary of typical questions about the C++ language briefly answered