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Summary: Excellent OOP
Review: After reading the excellent "Visual C++ Blue Book", I still felt a little ignorant about how the OOP works with C++. Though the "Visual C++ Blue Book" explained it well, OOP is such a 'core competency' or 'fundamental' I felt I needed a little extra understanding on these concepts of C++. This book did an excellent job of explaining the core concepts of OOP as it relates to C++. Since it is short, I didn't get bored with the endless yammering of many authors. It was quick, consice, and yet somehow managed to be extremely thurough. I highly recommend this book to anyone even though it recommends itself to C programmers moving to C++. I'm from VB, ASP and was able to grasp all of the concepts. Buy it, it will make you a better programmer.
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Summary: Great Book...I even found a way to preview the text online!
Review: Any O'Reilly book is instantly recognizable by its cover, even from a distance: Each features a black-and-white pen-and-ink drawing of an animal, often an exotic one. (The choice for C++: The Core Language is a coatimundi.) More importantly, they're all instantly recognizable by their contents: literate, technically impeccable guides to the subjects at hand. This title is no exception, and was an immediate classic from its first publication in 1995. The authors focus their attention on the problems of experienced C programmers who are new to C++. "What are the core subset of the language's features that make C++ what it is?" they ask-and answer in 16 concise chapters covering principles of object-oriented programming, abstraction and encapsulation, references, polymorphism, and implementing an object-oriented design.
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Summary: GREAT FOR UNDERGRADS!
Review: As an undergrad and passionate dbl major, having read many books in C and C++, this book quickly became my friend. It's a good read for those breaking out of C to C++. This book helped me cope with the shock experienced while I was trying to learn ADTs, BSTs, splay trees, skip lists, multiway tries and extendable hashing in the high level programming courses where if you asked questions you'd look dumb. The information in this book made me feel contiguously good while sitting in class. It also served as another perspective and filled in the gaps that the professor and school text left out. Also, pick up Robert Sedgewick's Algorithms in C++ 3rd Edition, which is also a splendid read. Enjoy helping computers understand people! late-
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Summary: Best Book for C programmers transitioning to C++
Review: Best Book for C programmers transitioning to C++. It will get you up and running quickly in C++.
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Summary: Focused and Concise
Review: C++: The Core Language is a well written book and a pleasure to read. It appears that that authors made an extra effort to remove unneeded verbiage. I appreciate this because I have so much to read.
The bread and butter OOD concepts of abstraction and polymorphism are well covered. The chapter on templates covers this difficult subject well, however, I would have liked to have seen a little more on template functions.
I came from a Kernighan and Ritche C background (the "C' bible), and this seemed to pick up right where they left off. You could call this book K&R part II, and it is also about the same size. If you want a complete C++ bookshelf, I would also recommend buying (in this order) Effective C++ by Scott Meyers, The C++ Standard Library by Nicolai Josuttis, and C++ in a Nutshell by Ray Lischer.
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Summary: An excellent transition from C to C++
Review: Coming from a C backround, I found this book an excellent treatment of the major concepts of the C++ language. While it is by no means an exhaustive tome, it does provide an excellent transition from C to C++ programming by introducing an overview of C++ fundamentals and concepts. This book is a fine stepping stone on the journey to more advanced C++ and OOP development.
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Summary: Teaches the ++, not the C
Review: First and foremost you need to already know C in order to use this book. You need to be familiar with the entire language because the authors derive most of their examples by saying: "This is the concept, this is how you would do it in C (to see the basic mechanisms), and now here's how you do it in C++." This book does not hold your hand through this teaching though, they assume you know what you are doing and are following what they are talking about, which is okay by me. I personally don't like books that are really wordy and have alot of information I already know and so I waste my time and money on needless words. There needs to be more books like this one, just tell me the core concepts like what they do and why and the burden for learning and understanding them falls on me not the authors. One complaint that was echoed in an earlier review was the lack of disk I/O commands which are different enough in C++ to necessitate in me having to go to another book to look them up. How about an appendix or website or something like that, sure would be helpful. All in all, a very good book if you don't like all the B.S., fluff, and general page filling that you see on the bookshelves (aka. every book except O'Reily's).
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Summary: Teaches the ++, not the C
Review: First and foremost you need to already know C in order to use this book. You need to be familiar with the entire language because the authors derive most of their examples by saying: "This is the concept, this is how you would do it in C (to see the basic mechanisms), and now here's how you do it in C++." This book does not hold your hand through this teaching though, they assume you know what you are doing and are following what they are talking about, which is okay by me. I personally don't like books that are really wordy and have alot of information I already know and so I waste my time and money on needless words. There needs to be more books like this one, just tell me the core concepts like what they do and why and the burden for learning and understanding them falls on me not the authors. One complaint that was echoed in an earlier review was the lack of disk I/O commands which are different enough in C++ to necessitate in me having to go to another book to look them up. How about an appendix or website or something like that, sure would be helpful. All in all, a very good book if you don't like all the B.S., fluff, and general page filling that you see on the bookshelves (aka. every book except O'Reily's).
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Summary: Teaches the ++, not the C
Review: First and foremost you need to already know C in order to use this book. You need to be familiar with the entire language because the authors derive most of their examples by saying: "This is the concept, this is how you would do it in C (to see the basic mechanisms), and now here's how you do it in C++." This book does not hold your hand through this teaching though, they assume you know what you are doing and are following what they are talking about, which is okay by me. I personally don't like books that are really wordy and have alot of information I already know and so I waste my time and money on needless words. There needs to be more books like this one, just tell me the core concepts like what they do and why and the burden for learning and understanding them falls on me not the authors. One complaint that was echoed in an earlier review was the lack of disk I/O commands which are different enough in C++ to necessitate in me having to go to another book to look them up. How about an appendix or website or something like that, sure would be helpful. All in all, a very good book if you don't like all the B.S., fluff, and general page filling that you see on the bookshelves (aka. every book except O'Reily's).
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Summary: Great book to come up to speed fast on C++ basics
Review: For an advanced C programmer with no prior knowledge of C++, this book presented the basic concepts so that using other detailed C++ reference books was easily understood and more enlightening since the concepts presented in the core language was nearly 95% complete.
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