Bruce Eckel (born (1957-07-08) July 8, 1957 (age 67)) is a computer programmer, author, and consultant.^{[citation needed]}

Eckel's best known works are Thinking in Java and the two-volume series Thinking in C++, aimed at programmers wanting to learn the Java or C++ programming languages, respectively, particularly those with little experience of object-oriented programming.^{[citation needed]}

Eckel was a founding member of the ANSI/ISO C++ standard committee.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011, Eckel extolled the virtues of the Go programming language as a natural successor to C++:^[1]

"The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no longer justified. All the hoops that the C++ programmer had to jump through in order to use a C-compatible language make no sense anymore — they're just a waste of time and effort. Now, Go makes much more sense for the class of problems that C++ was originally intended to solve."

— Bruce Eckel (2011)^[1]

• ISO/IEC 14882 - C++ standard

• Computer Interfacing with Pascal & C, Bruce Eckel. Eisys 1988, ISBN 0-89716-211-0.
• Using C++, Bruce Eckel. Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1989, ISBN 978-0-07-881522-5.
• C++ Inside & Out, Bruce Eckel. Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1993, ISBN 978-0-07-881809-7.
• Blackbelt C++: The Masters Collection, Edited by Bruce Eckel. M&T/Holt 1994, ISBN 978-1-55851-334-1.
• Thinking in C++: Introduction to Standard C++, Volume One (2nd Edition), Bruce Eckel. Prentice-Hall PTR 2000, ISBN 978-0-13-979809-2. Available for free download ^[1]
• Thinking in C++, Vol. 2: Practical Programming, 2nd Edition, Bruce Eckel and Chuck Allison. Prentice-Hall PTR, 2003. ISBN 0-13-035313-2. Available for free download ^[1]
• Thinking in Java, 4th Edition, Bruce Eckel. Prentice-Hall PTR, 2006. ISBN 0-13-187248-6.
• "First Steps in Flex", Bruce Eckel and James Ward. MindView, Inc., 2008. ISBN 978-0-9818725-0-6.
• "Atomic Scala", Bruce Eckel and Dianne Marsh. Mindview, LLC, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9818725-1-3.
• "On Java 8", Bruce Eckel, MindView LLC, 2017. ISBN 978-0-9818725-2-0.
• "Atomic Kotlin", Bruce Eckel & Svetlana Isakova, MindView LLC, 2021. ISBN 978-0-9818725-4-4.

• Computing Thoughts- Eckel's blog
• Interview with Bruce Eckel by Clay Shannon
• List of other interviews with him
• Latest news on upcoming book Atomic Kotlin
• MindView - Eckel's company
• Reinventing Business on YouTube - Eckel on building corporate cultures that increase employee happiness and thus employee productivity, O'Reilly Open Source Convention, 2013