I fully see what your saying. That is a very good point; to not get stuck in bad habits or using propritary includes, etc.
I will also read through that book (along with the other review C++ book that was suggest, before I hit the gaming portion of the books).
Man, this forum is sure a good one
EDIT NOTE: Is that the exact name of the book or? I was checking out Amazon I didn't see it (I was an old out of print listing), but did see a couple books that has "ANSI C++" in the title of them. Just wanna make sure I grab the right one