I wish that were true. As the only teenager in my rural school even remotely interested in programming, the closest thing I had to advice came from my dad, who didn’t finish college and liked to build computers as a hobby, but who didn’t know the first thing about programming. I spent a long time trying to find a good C or C++ book at the time, and the C++ book I ended up buying was so much worse than Schildt as to be unmentionable.