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Summary: Doesn't live up to 2nd edition
Review: I am an experienced C/C++ programer and I have used the C++ Primer 2nd edition for quite a few years I and think it is excellent. I have owned this 3rd edtion for about a year now and I find it completely useless as a reference. Lippman's examples run on and take too long to get to the point. The book is about twice the length of the 2nd edition and winds up diluting the information and making it less clear as opposed to pressenting anything new.
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Summary: A must have for serious C++ programmers
Review: I started learning C++ in 97 and used the second edition of this book. It was really a pain and a longer learning curve compared to other introduction books. I bought Waite Group's C++ and Wrox's Beginning Visual C++ later and they were very easy to follow. But after three years, I still feel Lippman's book is valuable for my work and the other two books become useless. ...
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Summary: Good for the pro, not for a novice!
Review: I've been using this book to teach a course in C++ and OOP, and my students have almost unanimously panned it -- poorly organized, hard to follow examples, topics spread out over many different parts of the book. I myself found it to be not a bad reference, particularly if you're already somewhat familiar with the language and/or concepts, but it's definitely NOT a book one could use to learn the language themselves (see SAM's C++ in 21 days or the Waite Group Primer instead!)
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Summary: What could I say?
Review: Don't buy this book if you want to be a C++ guru. The examples are too basic and obvious. This book is good for novices, if you have a good knowledge of C++ you will repeat yourself ten thousand times. I suggest Deitel & Deitel, C++ how to program. This book is awesome you'll be amazed (good for novices as well).
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Summary: REALLY, REALLY BAD BOOK....
Review: I been programming for about 7 years. (JAVA, VB, PASCAL, C) I knew about 60% of what C++ was about. I took a formal class so that I can learn it the right way. We used this book what a bad experience. BAD organization some old ANSI Standards that do not exist anymore in today's programming. Subjects were not organized at all. On the beginning chapters Lippman was all over the place CH15, CH18... Nothing was from the beginning. TERRIBLE...TERRIBLE...TERRIBLE I try to get just to the style of the book but it was impossible. I end it up buying another book "SCHILDT" great book I learned it right. I got an A on my class. Now is all I do C++.
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Summary: Must be on your bookshelf
Review: This book must be the first book you turn to if you want to learn C++. It must be read from cover to cover. Then read some of the more advanced books like Effective C++.
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Summary: beginner
Review: I think most of reviewers who wrote reviews for this book are experienced programmers or at least they know how to buy computer books. Well I am a C++ beginner and I bought this book and I've used it for a while. See how a real beginner think. I bought this book 2 months ago when I started programming in C++. Nobody recommended it to me. The reason I decided to buy it because it looked to me that the book was very well organized. Well it really is. When I started reading and practining with it, I found that this book is definitely not for beginners. The autor wrote in preface "Knowledge of the C language is not assumed... this book is intended as a first book on C++; it is not intended as a first book in programming!" I think if he changed to " this book is intended to be used with other C++ books", would be much better because it's really hard to understand C++ by using this book alone. If you use this book as your first book for C++ and you understand well what are presented in the book, you may be one of the following. 1. You hold the head of the department of computer science 2. You just received bronze medal for computer olympic or the like 3. You should found your own software company soon 4. You are cheating The book starts with a program contained several funtions, followed by processor directives and pointer. I didn't understand most of first 100 pages but when I go to other books and came back to this book, I could understand much better. However I give this book 5 stars. What I can say is the book is great but not for beginners. Now I have about 12 books on C++ and I regrete that I bought some of these but I never regrete that I bought this book. I think that this book is the best of all I have. Why? Other viewers already mention it all. If you know a litle bit of C or C++ and you are thinking to buy a book, think of this one. You never regret.
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Summary: This has to be THE classic book on C++
Review: This book is to C++ what K&R's C programming language is to C. Both books are not for novices to C or C++, so any harsh comments on this book from beginners should not deter intermediate to advanced C++ programmers from reading it. This book is concise, logical, to the point, and no extraneous, redundant explanations. Just like what K&R's C is. Through careful reading, I was able to follow 95-99% of the material, which is much better percentage than I was doing with Stroupstrup's (maybe less than 75%). If you are a C++ practitioner going for job interviews, each page in this book is a gem, clearly written,concise interview questions. I was programming in C++ for 4 years before I thoroughly read this book, and I feel like I know everything about C++ at this point (ok, maybe 9 out of the scale of 1-10)
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Summary: Pretty Good, but should change the title....(why?)
Review: After years of being a C++ programmer, read quite a lot of books (about 20, I think)... I considered this one as one of my favourite, that I usually refer to when I have some problem. However, this book is definitely not-for-beginner. So, some of the reader might be misleading by/confuse with its title. The writers had stated this clearly on the back cover, which said "for developers new to C++" and in the preface, which said "This book is intended as a first book on C++; it is NOT intended as a first book on programming!" (However, it's a Primer for "C++" not for "Programming" anyway :-) One big thing that made this book different from most of the C++ introductory books is, this book provided a lot of "real-world" program examples. Here, I really mean "real world", the program that you can really "use" (maybe after make them a bit more advanced/complete), like the text query system. While all other books provided some little codes to illustrate the points. Ok, that's better for those who know nothing, someone who come to C++ "from scratch", something like that... But after you finished it, you still might not get the idea of how to put them together , unless there are any bigger program to illustrate the idea. Note to those who are new to programming : Read other book first, so you won't blame on a good book like this. Note to everyone who had been misleaded by this book's title : Make sure you've read the back cover and the preface of any book before buying it, if you can... (if you can't, you have to try your luck..., good luck for you then :-)
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Summary: A good C++ book in every aspect
Review: A review? I don't think I am qualified to write any reviwe on any programming books. However, I do read this book, almost every chapter. I just can not stop myself from reading it. There are lots of information, techniques and concept in general in this book you can use in your everyday's work. I heard people complain about the complexity of C++. I consider that is the beauty of it. It is a challenging and evolving language. Also, there is much more fun to program in C++ than any programming language in the whole wild wild world. This book tell you why. I like to give this book 5 starts.
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