Herbert Schildt is a bestselling American author, computer scientist, Windows programmer, and musician.

He is considered an authority figure on the C, C++ programming language and has written over twenty-seven books on the subject. Some of his books are C++: The Complete Reference and Born To Code In C. Schildt’s books have sold over three million copies and have been translated into several languages.

Best-selling genius Herb Schildt covers everything from keywords, syntax, and libraries, to advanced features such as overloading, inheritance, virtual functions, namespaces, templates, and RTTI―plus, a complete description of the Standard Template Library (STL).