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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This book combines the power of an excellent refernce, example code, explanations good enough for anyone, and tutorials for beginners. Near perfect, you couldn't fit anymore information on these pages
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Summary: NOT a Beginner's Book!
Review: This is an exhaustive study of C++ but it is NOT a book for beginners unless you are taking a college-level course in C++ and have a good, knowledgeable teacher available to help when the going gets tough. The code examples get very complicated very quickly and without the steady hand of a teacher or C++ wizard you will get lost in the code! Othewise, if you are a professional programmer needing to learn C++ from C you should have no trouble getting through this tomb!
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Summary: Do not purchase
Review: Do not purchase this book. to many words about all to little. and put in a confusing typografi. The only thing good about this book is that it has a lot of good eksampels.
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Summary: This book is NOT an "introductory" text
Review: Obviously you can sell a lot more books if you claim them to be everything for all people. Despite the editorial review, this book is NOT for beginners and is NOT an introductory-level programming course, as the review from Book News claims. If you have prior, extensive programming experience, then yes...it would be an introduction to the C++ language. I'm an expert at HTML, and have a Bachelor's in Accounting, but have very little programming experience. (So I know how to turn on a computer, and how to solve a complex statistical problem.) This book seems to be very good IF you are already an experienced programmer, but a beginner will become completely LOST in the second chapter, as I was. I am returning the book next week for a refund, and will be in search of a true BEGINNING C++ textbook. It is becoming tiresome to keep buying or checking out programming books which assume you should be able to put the frigging book under your pillow at night, and wake up an expert, and understand every term and all the technical jargon that is thrown out willy nilly on every page without FULL explanations. HELLO TECH. AUTHORS OUT THERE, ARE YOU HEARING THIS? Doubtful. I'm sure if I keep looking, and trying to sift through the bogus reviews, I'll finally find the books I'm looking for, and when I find them, I will gladly crow about them here. Until then, back to the bookstore!
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Summary: Awesome, detailed book
Review: I can't understand why people don't like this book! I'm in an introductory C++ course as a SOPHMORE in high school. The explanations are excellent and the exercises at the end of the chapters are excellent. If you want a college-level introductory C++ book, this is it!
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Summary: About average or slightly better
Review: I have programmed for years in a few languages, although not in C++. In my opinion, this book has obvious advantages and significant disadvantages. It is reasonably detailed and systematic for a textbook, contains enough illustrative pieces of code, and useful listings of typical errors and "good practices". However, in my opinion, the authors are not masters of clear explanation. In many instances they explain basically very simple concepts in an unreasonably complicated way by overloading their illustrations with insignificant additional details that only blur the main point. In some places, such additions involve concepts that are going to be explained only a few chapters later. Quite often I had to consult other books on C++ (some of which are commonly regarded as difficult to read) just to figure out what the authors actually wanted to explain. It is not to say that you will not be able to learn C++ with this book, but this will not be in the most efficient way: you will have to waste a good deal of time and effort unnecessarily. The index also leaves much to be desired. It is a common problem of many contemporary book indexes, which are composed with a computer but without much thinking on the last day before the deadline; in this particular book the poor quality of the index is critical, because readers need cross-references far more often than in well-written textbooks.
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Summary: The most valuable book i ever bought!
Review: I am a bioscience graduate and non-programmer. I needed to understand how a program works and to utilize the full potential of computers. After reading a few books from the library, which lead me no where, I consulted 5 of my IT friends and all 5 named this book as the book for a novice like me to start off. The booking queue for this book in the library was too long at that time. So, I bought one and soon it turn out to be one of the best computer science book I ever bought. The contents are excellent. Well organized, concise and compact. The notes and tips are well placed. At times, it felt just like having a private tutor with me. The web support for these series of books are great! Visit the website to find out first hand. I am amazed at the length for perfection the authors willing to go after. Deservedly mentioned the profound after sales service that Prentice Hall provides. I used the book at average of 1 hour a day, after 5 chapters, the earlier pages started to fell off. Prentice Hall will replace the book for me. The extent of readers comfort that Prentice Hall willing to go for is equally amazing. But more important as a reader, I now understand better what computer can do and how it do it. Some of the exercises given are hard, with no answers given, but it brings out the best in me to solve them. Slowly but surely self-learners like me are getting a foot hold on programming C++ and programming in general. I'll grade a book like this 5/5 stars.
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Summary: recommended
Review: I learned C++ from this book as I took it at an MSEE program. I would recommend it to all engineering students.
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Summary: Beginners: Avoid this book
Review: This book is very confusing and hard to follow. Several of the exercises require you to read several chapters ahead in order to complete them. I know that I am a beginner but all the book did was frustrate me.
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Summary: Stay away from this book.
Review: I would strongly recommend not reading this book or any other book by these authors. Not only that their text is misguiding, their examples are simply bad code. Moreover, they seem to lack basic understanding of memory management. This book is a bad start for a beginner. Experienced programmers would trash it in a day.
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