Humble Bundle sells 21 Packt C++ ebooks for €16.35 until 12 October
Humble Bundle is running a Packt book bundle called C++ Programming Masterclass: Code Faster. Build Smarter. Master C++. It holds 21 ebooks, DRM-free, in PDF and EPUB. The minimum is €4.53 for three of them, and €16.35 unlocks all 21. You choose how the payment splits between Packt, The Global FoodBanking Network, and a tip to Humble. The bundle ends on 12 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC, which is 20:00 in Warsaw.
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The three tiers
Humble shows prices in the visitor’s local currency. These are the euro prices the page served on 30 September; the page itself puts the combined list price at up to US$761.
| pay at least | books | adds |
|---|---|---|
| €4.53 | 3 | C++ and Algorithmic Thinking for the Complete Beginner (Aristides Bouras), CMake Best Practices (Dominik Berner, Mustafa Kemal Gilor), Data Structures and Algorithms with the C++ STL (John Farrier) |
| €13.62 | 7 | Asynchronous Programming with C++ (Javier Reguera-Salgado, Juan Antonio Rufes), Modern CMake for C++ (Rafał Świdziński, Alexander Kushnir), Qt 6 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook (Lee Zhi Eng), Rust for C++ Developers (Dan Olson) |
| €16.35 | 21 | Hands-On Design Patterns with C++ (Fedor G. Pikus), Template Metaprogramming with C++ and Modern C++ Programming Cookbook (both Marius Bancila), C++ Memory Management (Patrice Roy, Michael Wong), Building Low Latency Applications with C++ (Sourav Ghosh), Debunking C++ Myths (Alexandru Bolboacă, Ferenc-Lajos Deák), Learn LLVM 17 (Kai Nacke, Amy Kwan), LLVM Code Generation (Quentin Colombet, Kristof Beyls), C++ STL Cookbook (Bill Weinman), Software Architecture with C++ (Andrey Gavrilin, Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski), Refactoring with C++ (Dmitry Danilov), GPU Programming with C++ and CUDA (Paulo Motta), The C++ Programmer’s Mindset (Sam Morley), Bare-Metal Embedded C Programming (Israel Gbati, Georgios Papanikolaou) |
The difference between the middle and top tier is €2.73, and it buys fourteen books. For most readers the question is whether to pay €16.35, not which tier to pick.
Where I would start
- Hands-On Design Patterns with C++, by Fedor Pikus, in its second edition. It treats patterns as C++ techniques: type erasure, CRTP, policy-based design.
- Marius Bancila’s two books. Template Metaprogramming with C++ covers C++20 concepts and constraints. The Modern C++ Programming Cookbook is the third edition and has recipes for
std::expected,std::mdspan, and synchronized output streams. - C++ Memory Management, by Patrice Roy and Michael Wong, both long-standing WG21 members. It covers ownership, smart pointers, and writing your own allocators.
- Modern CMake for C++ (second edition) and CMake Best Practices, if you maintain a build.
- Building Low Latency Applications with C++, by Sourav Ghosh, which builds the parts of an electronic trading system from scratch, with performance data for each.
- Debunking C++ Myths, which takes common claims about the language one at a time and checks them.
- LLVM Code Generation, by Quentin Colombet and Kristof Beyls, both long-time LLVM backend developers. It goes from LLVM IR down to assembly.
What to know before buying
Among the descriptions that name a standard, Template Metaprogramming with C++ and Software Architecture with C++ are built around C++20, and the Modern C++ Programming Cookbook reaches C++23. The C++ STL Cookbook is the only one whose description mentions C++26.
Learn LLVM 17 is written against a release from 2023. LLVM is at 23 now and its C++ API changes between major versions, so expect some of the book’s code to need edits. Bare-Metal Embedded C Programming is a C book for Arm microcontrollers, and Rust for C++ Developers is a Rust book.
Sources: the Humble Bundle page, including its embedded tier and item data, checked on 30 September 2026 at 22:09 UTC. The book list was cross-checked against humble.dadand.dev.