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Summary: Quite a good read
Review: Depending upon your level of expertise .. you may find this book a little tedious if just starting out on the programming road, a good recap on some core fundamental topics if an intermediate level programmer or simply old hat if a seasoned advanced programmer. I browsed the majority of the book (specifically the C++ portion) in just under two weeks .. it was good being reminded of the importance of things like inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation et al .. central to any object oriented language. The authors use good examples to reinforce the ideas and the exercises are challenging and a test to really see if you know the stuff.I found interesting the chapters on Templates and Advanced Data Structures (especially liked the Linked List & Binary Tree examples) and right now am navigating through the STL Chapter & ANSI/ISO extensions which is the real reason why i bought the book. Well worth the money .. and good to have in the technical library.
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Summary: you can do much better
Review: this is a fairly descent book on c++, the examples are limited and not as thorough as I had hoped.Spend your money on something better youll be glad you did
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Summary: No saving at Amazon!
Review: Where is the savings at Amazon.com? Border is selling this book for $56.00 on shelf.
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Summary: A good reference book for C++ programmers
Review: I found this book to be very interesting and helpful. It covers the material in enough detail, so a beginner or intermediate user wouldn't have to dig in other C++ books. The book also has a lot of examples and exercises. One important thing is also the fact that documentation and good programming styles are being introduced and used throughout the entire book. Definitely a good reference book to keep!
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Summary: Filled with information, Filled with babble...
Review: The book was very poorly designed; however, it does contain the information. The Deital's ramble on about nothing, and then they give you the 'Nuts and Bolts' of programming. Not a good book for beginners or the faint of heart. They need to come down to the level of the average programmer and not the gurus.
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Summary: Definantly NOT for students with no programming background
Review: We all learn at different levels, and currently I am using this book in a first semester class in C++. I am having difficulty catching on. So if you learn at a slower pace as do I, choose a book that's not quite as technical to start. This book is for students with programming experience, not for true novices like myself. Remember, just because you learn at a slower pace, doesn't mean you won't one day become one of the sharpest programmers around. The best of luck to all who attempt it.
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Summary: One big, ridiculous, unbearable ego trip
Review: These guys think they're God's gift to programming. It appears they've gotten sycophants from all over to write positive reviews. I just can't understand why so many people I've spoken with personally find their style so awful yet all these reviews just glow with excitement. The exercises contain no answers and the prose is so abstract that it's almost unreadable. It's also downright boring, confusing and poorly organized. Find another book. Ivor Horton comes to mind.
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Summary: Poorly organized, impenetrable and horrid prose, messy index
Review: This was the unfortunate choice for my introductory C++ course. Talk about overkill. The Deitels seem unable or unwilling to lower themselves to the task of explaining technical concepts in English. Instead, we get a collection of annoying insect icons flying about amidst a hodgepodge of overly arcane, pathetically constructed babble. Fortunately, we used the book mainly as a reference, which was tricky enough since the index itself is literally exploding with multiple entries, and there is no glossary. Rather than assign us readings from the text, the professor mercifully explained the concepts to us and pointed out a few observations, referring to the text only as a general guide to syntax. On the positive side, the speed and portability tips and software engineering observations are excellent. Now that I'm finishing an advanced course, I can unequivocally state that Ivor Horton, Jesse Liberty and Scott Meyers do a superior job of teaching C++ compared with these nerdy nitwits. Deitel & Deitel is not a book for introductory programmers OR advanced programmers. It lacks stylistic grace, a sense of proportion and purpose, and on the whole could benefit from careful and vigourous editing. One gets the impression that the entire exercise was designed to allow them to feel superior to their audience rather than provide meaningful instruction. Inelegant, grandiose, silly, verbose and overpriced are words I would use to describe this book, and I don't see how anyone could consider this a "classic" text. They call their book _How to Program_ but someone ought to teach them "how to write."
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Summary: Good book for beginners
Review: This is a good book for beginners and a good reference for programmers. It contains the important features of C++.
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Summary: Good Reference
Review: This book is a good reference book but it does not contain enough examples. This is not a book for beginning programmers.
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