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Summary: What A Great Achievement in Life
Review: This is the inventor of C++. This book has everything you want to know about C++. I am a student and it is a easy reading book.
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Summary: Written by the creator of C++ , well organized and good
Review: This is a good concise introduction to C++. It goes into some of the advanced features, tricks with pointers, etc. I have programmed in C++ for years, and this book yet showed me some cool tips and tricks that I didn't know. Overall a great book.After all , who will know better then the creator himself. And whats better is that he knows how to express it !
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Summary: Awesomely clear explanation of C++.
Review: This may not be a beginner programmer's book, but for me it provided very clear explanations for the OOPS in C++. Written by one of the founders of the ++ in C, you can't go wrong with this book. Also the author's opinionated views on program and project modularity make this book an interesting read for anyone. No computer required to read through this book. The code samples are small enough to follow as part of the text. Great book.
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Summary: A great book on C++. But, only for experienced programmers
Review: This book is one of the greatest C++ books. The author Bjarne Stroustrup clearly explains each and every feature of C++ and at the same time gives warnings about potential dangers about using certain features improperly. For some, the book may seem unstructured but, if you are able to complete the first three chapters of the book, reading the rest will be easy and enjoyable. Particularly, the treatment of Virtual Classes, operator overloading and memory management are great. I highly recommend this book to anyone that is serious about learning C++ well. The other books I would recommend are "Effective C++ by Scott Meyers" This book actually summerises all the warning Dr. Strousrup has given in his book. Advanced C++ by James Coplien is also very good ( be warned that this book is little dated compared to "The c++ programming language" and "Effective C++").
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Summary: Best there ever will be
Review: I get extremely aggravated by people who read a book like thisand say how terrible it is, how the examples are hard to understand,and how hard the code is to understand, etc etc... Blah blah blah. It's pretty obvious to an experienced programmer that these people clearly are not the target audience of the book. The target audience of this book is programmers who have a couple years of experience programming (at least in C, preferably in C++). Additionally, you must be able to understand some rather complex terminology, and some concepts that go well beyond the basics of just writing simple programs. You must also have a desire to learn the C++ language inside and out, leaving nothing whatsoever unclear about the language. If all you want is the basic syntax of the language and lots of handholding then I cannot imagine why you're even looking at a book by the creator of the language in the first place. That said, this is a truly amazing book. You will never, ever, ever find a more in depth description of the language, it's features and caveats, and how to make the language do what you want it to do and make programming simple in large systems. When you reach a certain point it isn't as simple as "okay let's have a class with some get and set methods here". You must have a thorough understanding of some extremely advanced features, and this book will definitely get you to that point if you put in the time. The way the explanations are worded and the examples that are given are difficult to understand because there's no simple way to explain such advanced concepts. And if you are one of the people that think there _is_ an easy way to explain such concepts in the same amount of detail, I invite you to go find an easy explanation of mathematical Field Theory or Quantum Physics. If you are smart, part of the target audience, and mature enough to handle it, I doubt you will be able to find a better book. And for those who are still convinced that simpler is better, I wonder if you can explain to me *why* overriding a function in a derived class makes all of its overloads in the base class inaccessible.
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Summary: A poor choice to learn C++
Review: Like code with many goto's, it is not possible to understand any part of this book without reference to many other parts, even parts later in the book. The book does have useful insights, and as such some people might like it as a secondary source of information. I have a lot of toughness in reading technical books, and have slugged my way through many which put greater demands on the reader. But why should you, when you can assimilate the same material in half the time by reading another book? I am a fan of Schildt's, and like his "C++, the complete reference". This is not a tutorial, but if you know a little C you could learn from it. I am not familiar with his "C++ from the ground up", but it could be one excellent choice if you are not familiar with C. I also have Lippman's C++ Primer, which I have found to be a valuable reference. As an introduction, however, it's a little too leisurely for my taste. Some people like the book by Al Stevens. I'm not sure if it came after ANSI C++.
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Summary: Excellent C++ Resource
Review: This is the best C++ book that I have ever read. If you have a decent understanding of C++, this will take you to the next level. If you don't have any experience with C++, I would not recommend this book as a starter. If you're a professional developer, it is a MUST. It is a very good reference for the STL. I think that it is worth buying regardless of your experience level though.
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Summary: A tome
Review: 1000 pages of admittedly well-written text about C++, without even discussing high-level APIs aside from the very basic STL, should be enough to convince anyone to move to Java.
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Summary: Excellent, useful, complete. Requires interest and effort.
Review: This book is inappropriate for a person who is new to programming. It is even more inappropriate for a quick-and-easy programmer who wants to learn practical skills as quickly as possible but lacks the interest and desire to achieve a high level of skill. Bookshelves are overflowing with books for these two types of people. Instead of adding another title to that flood, Bjarne Stroustrup delivers a well-written, well-structured book that helps in a challenging area where good resources like this one are needed. To those who dislike the writing style, I say "sorry, find another book." If you find the sentences hard to read, it is because they are written at a level of clarity and precision required by the concepts. If you find the concepts hard to understand, it is because they are presented with an insightfulness and thoroughness required by the academic/technical audience it is written for. This is neither your fault nor the author's: the book just wasn't written for you. When I was learning C++, I also found this book difficult and challenging, but with effort I was able to read and understand it. The more I know, the more useful the book is to me, and the happier I am that I put in that effort. In a sense it is a complete reference not only to the language but also to the design paradigm(s) that inspired the language. The concepts of OOP / generic programming aren't too bad at the surface level. But try and understand them enough to use them to construct complicated systems well, and they are genuinely hard. Every time I struggled with some aspect of the book, I realized once I understood it that Stroustrup had presented it in the best way possible. That's the best part of this book: you can trust that the author is guiding you from a position of knowledge and experience. But what else should we expect from the creator of C++? We are implicitly trusting him anyway by using his language.
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Summary: The definitive C++ book
Review: Since Bjarne Stroustrup created the language C++, he really ought to know what he's talking about. Better than that, though, he also gives a history of the language and rationale for its features. This is not a book which promotes the "latest gimick", Object Oriented Programming, over everything else, he has a section dicussing when and why other design methods are also useful. In short, it's a well-balanced book on the subject. The style manages to walk the fine line between a tutorial for novices and a reference manual; few books I've found manage to do this, but the author is an expert. An essential book for the serious C++ programmer.
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