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The new edition of the C++ Primer is helping me quite a bit. It explicitly notes which things are from C++11 and which aren't, and they talk quite a bit about the new stuff.

I had tried to learn from Stroustrup before C++11 and didn't get as far.

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I'm reading C++ Primer 5/e at the moment and I'm enjoying it so far. I like how it starts using the hight level containers before introducing other more low-level structs. The second part is a nice overview of the C++ Library so you won't end reinventing the wheel when writing your first programs.

Also the Kindle edition is really well done. The biggest flaw of this book is that's huge.

It would be hard to write a short introduction to C++ that didn't leave you pretty unprepared though.

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