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Summary: Great book (Content) - Terrible book (Physically)
Review: The Deitel's have created a great tutorial on C++, but the book itself may not last before I get thru the last chapter! The binding is cheap\weak and I can run the ink on the page just by touching it! What's the deal Prentice Hall? The book gets five stars for content and 1/2 a star for it's physical state.
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Summary: Great book, easy to understand
Review: I'm a CS student at Western Michigan University, and this is one of the required texts for one of my classes. If I'd know about it before I signed up for the class, I'd have bought it a long time ago. Authors make learning simple, with plenty of excercises to help. I'd recommend it any day
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Summary: Great book.
Review: As an experienced programmer I still found the book useful as a review of my "C" knowledge in the light of the new C/C++ standards. Also the sections on the standard library and exception throwing were very helpful.
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Summary: great for beginners and useful for frequent reference
Review: The book structure is great-the examples are great and concepts have been explained very well. I did find a few things that I didn't like [though the plus points definitely overweigh these few negative ones]:1. I think the book should use Hungarian notation for variables. 2. The tree search alorithms (Traversals) have not been well explained. The recursive search took me a while to understand. 3. The chapter on pointers doesn't carry good problems on pointers specifically. Otherwise, I think this book is one of the best for beginners, and can be used as reference.
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Summary: College Student taking C++
Review: This is DEFINITELY not a book for beginners. Deitel makes the sample code too complicated for incremental learning. Most students in our class had to purchase other C++ books in order to complete the projects. At the end of the course, we had to rate Deitel's book with a grade from A to F, not a single student gave it a grade better than a D. As a supplement, try "Schaum's Outline: Programming with C++"
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Summary: good book to learn with
Review: After using Deitel and Deitels book on C I purchased this on eon C++. Both are exceptional books. Don't waste your money on C++ in 21 days or other garbage of that ilk. This is a text book that requires no instructor. I was impressed with their book on C when I took Computer Science that I bought this one out of the myriad of the learn prgramming fast books. No language is learned in 24 hours, 21 days or in a year. True proficiency comes with education and experience. The authors are proficient and it shows.
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Summary: Excellent for the serious-minded
Review: I am new to C++ programming. I went out a got a lot of different books, plus I looked at a lot of books, and in my opinion, this is the best if you really want to learn C++. Some of the other books are good if you are already a programmer (like Stroustrup and Lippman), others are good if you just want to copy code to get your program to do something but really don't want to challenge yourself (like those learn in 21 days or learn in your sleep, or whatever). But this book is good because there are plenty of challenging exercises which really make you think about what you are doing. And the reward is writing your program and seeing it actually execute on screen! If you really want to learn the subject, don't waste your time or money on those "learn fast" books.
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Summary: Excellent, thorough, complete and a good reference.
Review: This books is the most clear, most thorough and must undertandable programming book I have EVER came across. I am a Visual Basic programmer, I am doing a C++ course at college this book explained to me EXACTLY what I wanted to know and even more. No other book I ever read/studied contained this much detail and information. However, you should have a knowledge of programming principles before getting it. This book is exellent for self study too. Or as a reference for later on.
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Summary: Definately the "bible" of C++
Review: This book is simply brillant for learning and understanding C++ and object oriented programming, as well as programming in general (awesome pointer section). All the major topics such as classes, inheritance, polymorphism, templates, file access, and more are all introduced and demonstrated near flawlessly. There is even an introduction to the STL. Allthough I can't recommend the Deitels' other books ("java how to program" and "C how to program" were average at best), "C++ how to program" is a must-have for all computer science students (like me) as well as hobbiest programmers.
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Summary: a *GREAT* book
Review: I know that a lot of those college students out in XYZville probably don't get any part of this book, but it is an excellent book for those who put in the time to understand what the book is saying; you can't speed read through it. As the book of choice for USC, I thought that it was great. I think that it's a pretty fair size book, although at first the 1200 pages will seem overburdening to anyone. What I did is read each of the 21 chapters (each about 60-80 pages, some just 30) in 2 days. This might seem kind of hard, but if you can put in the dedication of not letting your mind wander, you'll love this book. It's really neat, and has a lot of good exercises (even though 1/2 of them don't have answers, because you can basically check your own problems). After this book, you can go on to tackle something harder, like Data Structures in C++ (not, to my knowledge, available online). Don't believe the hype - many, many USC students owe their success in C++ to this book.
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