[Tutor] following on

[Danny Yoo]

> Does this comment extend to C++? :-)
>
> Could the experts, please, recommend a beginner's book to learn the
> principles of good programming?


I'm partial to How to Design Programs as a beginner's textbook:

    http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

because it emphasizes a systematic approach to designing programs.
Basically, it's a Polya's "How to Solve It" for programmers, with an
expanded treatment on how data structures inform the shape of the
functions that work on that data.