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Summary: Great for quick reference!
Review: This is a great quick reference book for C/C++. Also, good for reviewing C/C++ programming concepts when necessary. All information is presented in a clear and concise manner. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Abysmal
Review: This is an appalling reference book. Haphazardly organised with insufficient depth on any function or keyword. No consideration of actual implementations, poor type coverage, no syntax coverage beyond single case examples. Negligible template coverage.Give up now and instead get "C++ In A Nutshell" by Ray Lischner which is an excellent and thorough reference that actually deserves to be called a programmer's reference. I replaced "C/C++ Programmer's Reference" with "C++ In A Nutshell" and I'm very glad I did.
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Summary: Nice quick reference
Review: This is Schildt's "C Pocket Reference," "the next generation." He covers more here than he did in the Pocket Reference editions, adding C++ in there. It's not a tutorial, but it's not intended to be. It's a quick reference, and for that, it's organized well.
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Summary: It's great... I just used it this morning
Review: This reference is sitting on my desk and is the best one I have ever seen. A great layout covering all standard C and C++ functions with ANSI and the Old C++ I/O. It even covers STL! Now all I need is a good reference for each one of the DirectX components and I'd be set!
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Summary: The best reference for those that know code.
Review: This the best quick reference book I every had for C/C++. I am on a programing team and my team members and I use. It is for people that know how to code and just want a quick reference to the function name they forgot or something to remind them of the order of parameters. This book covers about 98% of anything you will ever need. For the last 2%, the only other book that would have a hope of answering it is Stroustrup's book but it is a detailed account of the language and NOT a quick reference.
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Summary: Good book - has all that I need
Review: While it has great definitions, sometimes a little more explanation is needed which this book lacks. But then perhaps there are other books for that purpose.
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Summary: Missing some essentials, and could be organized better
Review: While the book is decent, it is missing some essentials. For example, the book has open(), but not close(). Also, get used to looking something up in the index, since it's organized by type of command/function, instead of alphabetically. If you're looking for a C reference, this isn't really the best book, since it caters more towards C++ functions. Finally, it doesn't tell you if a command is C, C++, ANSI, Posix, or UNIX system based. There are much better books, but this is about as cheap as they come.
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