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Try Kate Gregory's Pluralsight courses.

I think the best book for complete beginners is "Jumping into C++" by Alex Allain. From there, move on to "C++ Primer Plus" by Stephen Prata.

Quantitative finance, scientific computing.

Recommended resources for learning C++ nowadays: "Jumping into C++" by Alex Allain, "C++ Primer Plus" by Stephen Prata, and Kate Gregory's C++ courses on Pluralsight. You can get a…

It might not be common knowledge yet, but C#, F#, and .NET are fully open source and cross-platform. Development is done in public on GitHub ( https://github.com/dotnet ), and pull…

One option with C# Windows Store apps is that they can generate native code using something called ".NET Native". https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx

VS2012 for Windows Phone development is free: http://aka.ms/winphone8sdk

You may be surprised to hear that there's lots of stuff happening with open source here at Microsoft. ASP.NET MVC, the Azure SDKs, and F# are all open source. Check out this blog f…