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Summary: another good deitel book
Review: I find unfortunate that this book has recieved poor ratings at all. Many people seem to simply not be used to the deitels' style, which does not lend itself to new programmers. Granted, this book, like the other Deitel books say they are for beginners, this book is not easy. On the other hand, I have never found a better book for using as a referance manual for an intermediate to advanced pregrammer. Deitels' examples of code are very good at expoiting features of the language many authors do not touch, and they have a very omplete referance to features. I also never found an inadiquite explnation of anything or had difficulty finding that explination. Though this book si written in a way that best lends itself to a reference manual, it can still teach the diligent student.
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Summary: Typical Fresh/Soph Textbook
Review: This book is an example of the typical fresh/soph university textbook written in a convoluted style where many of the key points are hidden. Like many (if not most) fresh/soph textbooks, the authors expect the reader to search out the key points in other places. At first glance the book seems to have many programming examples, but closer examination of these examples reveals that many of the main points of C++ programming are skipped. This is definitely NOT a self-help text for beginners. Any new student to C++ will have to refer to other sources of information to obtain the details of C++ programming. On the other hand, if one is familiar with C or C++ programming, this text does provide an excellent review. I have the 3rd edition of this text (class requirement) and the authors have written a 4th edition. Who knows if the 4th edition is any better! As for me, texts by other authors (Waite Group, for example) offer better instruction and transfer more understanding of C++ programming. Strongly recommend students new to C++ avoid this textbook.
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Summary: good but too wordy
Review: I have little experience in programming and my native language is not English. I bought it because I need to convert my code in Matlab to C++ in order to realize some more complicated calcuation and shorten the time of calculation.I think this book explains things clearly and thoroughly. However, the explanations are too wordy and the organizaion. Another weakness of the book is that the print format of the book is not good, some blank lines and some paragraph is needed to make it more readable. As a beginner, I feel it a bit boring to read it.The book is good only in studying the C++ language , but not suitable for Engineers who wants to program and solve numerical calcuation problems.
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Summary: Save your money, look for another book.
Review: I normally don't take the time to write book reviews but I was amazed at the other reviews this book received. Did these people really use this book? I was forced to use the book for a University course. C++ is the sixth programming language I am learning so I am familiar with various writing and teaching styles for computer languages. This book and the authors style is absolutely horrible. Their logic is almost impossible to follow and their writing style and stupid attempts at humor put you to sleep. The instructor for the course, who has many years of C++ experience, stopped using the book halfway through the course because of the errors. Maybe the authors know C++ but they do a very poor job of teaching it to others. If you want to be bored out your mind and utterly confused then buy this book. If you want to actually learn C++ then look elsewhere.
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Summary: Best basic C++ book ever!
Review: I am a contract technical education/continuing education C++ instructor at Dalhousie University in Halifax Canada. I have been using your "C++ How to Program" book as my course text for several years now, simply because it is the best, most up to date basic C++ text that I have ever been able to find!
For most students, it covers enough about this complex topic to get them productive, quickly. I use it myself, along with more advanced books, such as Stroustrup and Alexandrescu, as an excellent reference text.
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Summary: Not for self-teaching beginners, but an excellent reference
Review: This book was required for my 1st semester of computer science. It is a valuable reference and a nice supplement to an instructor's lecture. However, it does not teach you everything. C++ is too complex to cover everything in any one single book. It is not designed to make you a programmer (anyone can type code), but instead a "software engineer". It focuses on using the tools and language of C/C++ to solve problems. It covers topics on how to effectively organize and use those tools with plenty of examples, but does not go step-by-step through every possibility. If you are student or familiar with C/C++, this book will be a handy guide. But if you haven't programmed with C/C++ before and want to learn on your own there are probably other books that have less theory and more implementation.
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Summary: Not for new programmers
Review: As a beginner's (e.g. college freshman level C++) textbook, it s***ks! The more you get into it, the less that is explained, with far too many code examples leaving you hanging, wondering how they did that, or why. On the other hand, as a 3rd-year computer science student succinctly put it (when I was a freshman), "at the end of the 2nd semester C++ course, the 1st semester portion of that book began to make sense; at the end of the Data Structures course, the 2nd semester part of the book began to make sense!" This is NOT the best way to learn C++, folks. I had to buy 5 other books on C++ before I could make sense of Deitel & Deitel in the FIRST SEMESTER!
It is, however an excellent reference for C++, after you first learn it someplace else. The computer science department was dunned with so many complaints about this text (2000-2001) that they switched to a "dumbed down" text the very next year.
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Summary: A poor book for beginners
Review: A poor book for beginners or intermediate students of C++ OOP (object oriented programming).
The authors, Deitel and Deitel, seem to be knowledgeable and thorough programmers. Unfortunately, they fail to clearly "teach" this subject and instead seem to mainly be showing off their programming skills.
When explaining a topic or in their coding examples, they introduce too many new subjects at once and often and needlessly convolute the reader with extraneous information on topics that are best introduced later in the text. Also, they don't go into enough detail on a few of those same subjects.
A suggestion for these authors is to follow K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid).
The majority of my fellow C++ classmates agree with these comments. For a great introductory book on C++ written by a teacher who actually teaches C++ at a college level, I recommend "Starting out with C++, 3rd ed." by Tony Gaddis.
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Summary: Had Good Intentions...
Review: The first six chapters were great. After the sixth chapter, some concepts were explained well and others did not show any explanation. I had to buy other C++ books to fill in the blanks, so to speak. This is for the advanced programmer, not the novice programmer. Their graphics and explanations had good intention; but, the details of some parts I was not impressed. I have seen better programming manuals.
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Summary: HATE IT!
Review: I was required to purchase this book for my college classes. I took 2 courses using this book. I hated it! I, had no idea what C++ was other than a programming language and this book was way hard for me to understand. I would try to go through the examples in the book, but found many had programming errors themselves!! The main error was missing { or }. Really confused me! Then the exercises given for you to work on are a lot harder and more complex than the chapter covered. I spent 2 semesters pretty much lost and wondering is computer science was for me! I wish I could recommend a better book, but so far I haven't found one. I have the Joy of having to use a Java book written by the same people!
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