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Summary: A good introduction to C++
Review: I liked this book. It covered all the important aspects of ANSI C++. I do feel that it was lacking with respect to C++ as an object orientated language solution. It explains the principles but making the transition to create your own OO applications is not easy with this book alone. I felt the OO Linked lists were not explained too well. However, as a first book to read, and if you are willing to take time to do it thoroughly, and go over points you don't understand - a very good book.
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Summary: Excellent book for total beginners to intermediates
Review: Excellent starter book for anyone that knows nothing about programming. The more advanced topics may not be as easily understandable, but I managed to do it by reading the book VERY slowly to digest it all. You'll never finish it in 21 days, unless this book is the only thing you do all day. More like a month, at least. The writing is very clear and concise. The code examples are great, but I thought they could use some deeper analysis. This book starts you off, but if you are serious about becoming a C++ expert, you need to buy some full reference book, this wont really cut it. One more thing, it should be kind of obvious, but you should know that this book covers only standard C++ code-meaning text only. You gotta buy other books if you expect to do graphical interface programs.
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Summary: Very Good For C++ Beginners
Review: It's really Good!!! If you want to study C++,I recommend you positively. You never regret.
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Summary: Terrible Book!
Review: This is my first programming book on C++, and I can tell you...its the WORST. I have a strong programming backround, knowing Visual Basic, qBasic, Java, and HTML, so I wanted to start designing 3D Games in C++. I picked up this book to learn the basics, and it bascially throws a bunch of code at you without explaining it. This isn't helpful since C++ is a very complex and high end language. It doesn't explain things well enough. The first week seems pretty easy, but after that, you better read every word twice and hang on to exactly what he's talking about, or in a few days you'll find yourself going back a day. Some chapters often veer off from their title also. For example, in the chapter on message boxes, he explains how to display a messagebox with different types of styles and icons. In the project, you make two different kind of messageboxes, and you'll also find out how to use the switch code to find out what button is pressed. This is fine, especially since its the 4th day, and I think he should have stopped the chapter there. But no...he wanted to go into common dialogs (i.e. the windows Open File dialog, the save as dialog on most applications, the print dialog on most applications, etc.). This gets pretty complicated in C++, and probably should have been a whole different day.Well, if your experienced in C++, and have a bit of backround in it and need something to just look up constant pages of code, this book is great. Theres about 2 pages of code, and at the end a little blurb telling you the jist of whats happening. Then, at the end of the whole thing it wants to elaborate on the project on your own, when it doesn't explain anything to you. At this point, another confusing day begins all over again. If you want to actually LEARN C++ instead of copying codes out of the book and try to understand what its doing for yourself, I suggest another book. I got the exteme basics out of this book, but after getting some online help from a few people, looking at some websites and reading a few different books, I now understand C++ much better. You will get a much better education out of visiting websites and asking people online for help than you will with this book. Terrible buy, and a waste of money. I am just glad I didn't buy it, it came with my version of C++ for free.
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Summary: Great Comprehensive book
Review: Great book. Goes into details of C++. Can be used for learning and for reference. Incredible examples which are to the point. Buy it. Step-by-step you will learn everything about C++.
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Summary: As it said "TEACH YOURSELF!"
Review: Teach yourself, because this book WON'T. It was a good tutorial for the first 7 days, after that, you will easily get lost. Repeat! "Buy this book, and teach yourself a lesson!."
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Summary: ok, but not great
Review: The best books for a beginner are Deitel/Deitel's C++ How to Program, and as a secondary, more complete book, Schildt's C++ From The Ground Up. Deitel's book is better as a learning tool - full of useful coding examples and excellent exercises, but Schildt's book seems to cover so many possibilities that it makes a wonderful companion book and a great reference too, although it has lame, but understandable code examples and there aren't any exercises to work on either.
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Summary: Superior content with comprehensive examples
Review: Jesse tells all - In the mind of a rookie developer, the C++ language may seem overwhelming. Jesse has written this must-have book with a pace comfortable to even the most inexperienced. He covers all topics from Basic Classes, to Inheritance and Polymorphism, to Exception Handling and debugging complicated projects. He also adds a rather extensive chapter on real-world business programming and the steps involved in creating client-designated applications designed for the end-user(s). Employed as a tutorial or just simply as a reference, Jesse's book is an invaluable documentation on the language of C++.
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Summary: Beginner's treasure chest with barbs.
Review: A beginner's C++ book. As with many instructors, the author has a highly superior knowledge to the subject level and thus presents hollows of knowledge from time to time. My philosophy has always been to never present a twist for thought at the initial presentation of a concept. It seems that the author takes for granted minor portions of information obvious to the author, are not so obvious to an apprentice and thus retards the learning process. The upside and probably the author's intent, is that it forces you to take a closer (longer) look at the material. To really grasp each concept you must monkey with the code samples and find it out yourself. The structure of material is well thought out and presented in appropriate order. Intermediate programmers will probably find the book a good review that should fill in modern ideas and terms associated with current C++ programming. Overall, the wealth of material outweighs the snags to knowledge flow and there are a great many authors that do not have as high a mark on the readability index. This book in my opinion could be a best seller for beginning C++ programmers if the author had tested his material on a beginner.
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Summary: Great on Syntax, awful on semantics
Review: This book certainly gives all the syntax for writing C++, but contains very little on how to structure C++ progams. The chapters jump from topic to topic in random order. As an experienced C programmer, I found that I learnt something about C++ constructs. There was very little on how all the pieces fit into the object-oriented paradigm.
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