At this point, I would strongly recommend "Programming Tools in
Pascal", by Kernighan and Plauger. It's fairly dated, and its
examples use Pascal syntax. (But they are basically C
programs---the authors obviously prefer C, and use Pascal in a
very C-like way. But when the book was written, C was still a
small, niche language, little known outside of AT&T, and so not
a reasonable choice for such a book.) It will teach you a lot
about the larger picture when developing real small programs,
just rewriting the examples in C++ should teach you something,
and doing the exercises even more. And I don't know of anything
better which has been written since.
