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Bjarne Stroustrup’s A Tour of C++ is a compact walk through the language by its designer, written for programmers who already know how to code and want the shape of modern C++ rather than a from-scratch tutorial. It moves quickly from types, objects, and functions into classes, templates, the standard library, and concurrency, showing how those pieces fit together as one language. This 2013 edition is a map of C++11-era C++ more than an encyclopedic reference: a structured overview before a fuller textbook or the standard.