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Summary: Who, what, huh, uhhhh bah......
Review: If your looking for a book that you can make alphabet soup out of this is certainly the one for you. Fancy wording with BIG words does not make the learning curve any less difficult. Once you get past all of the mumbo jumbo BIG WORDS you find the code to be incorrect and you have to figure it out and fix it on your own (Gee I didn't buy it so I could rewrite it!).I'm dissapointed I spent so much $$ for this book and it didn't come with a bottle of Tylenol. It reads like a tax form and has about as much helpfull information.
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Summary: Horribly Written -- Very Confusing
Review: IN the introduction the author makes a point of saying that this book is for total beginers. This is a bunch of bull! I have programming experience and I found it very confusing within the first few chapters. Definately do not buy this book!
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Summary: Overall, excellent!
Review: Steven's book is excellent on two fronts - the organization of the material is clear, and the tools provided (Quincy 97) are quite handy. Contrary to some other reviews I found Quincy 97 to be highly stable and reliable. I really have enjoyed working through this one - but for one issue: The typos and proofreading could really use some help. On one chapter (Chapter 13) the author's own code does not seem to be compiling correctly on one of the header files - a file that contains code re-used over and over in the chapter. At other times, I have found code errors I was able to fix easily, and showed me I had actually learned quite a bit. However, this does not excuse the bad proofing. Overall, I give it five stars because of the clarity. No book is perfect in every respect, and I do look at another c++ book from time to time, but this one will get you going and build your confidence...
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Summary: Bad Choice for a Teach Yourself Book.
Review: The author states that this book is intended for beginning to intermediate pc users, but I found this is woefully mistargeted. I have been reading the book and am shocked at how hastily and unsatisfiably new topics are introducted. For example, the topic of pointers is thrown at the reader without even a discussion of what * or & means. The whole slew of pointer syntax possibilities is laid out in front of you, but without a description of why and how each statement does what it does. Intermediate "programmers" - not "pc users" as the author claims - would probably not get lost in this book, but even then a great deal of 'how & why' is missing. Summary - there are much better introductory C++ books out there.
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Summary: The best programming tools for novice programer.
Review: The book is very useful for people, which have some programming backround and want to move to C/C++ programming. On CD you can find perfect prog. tools named Quincy 97. Easy to use, plesure to deal with it! Text in the book has a lot of important information, but sometimes it's very hard to understand for beginner what next step he has to do
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Summary: Do Not Buy This Book
Review: The information in this book is very basic and does not prepare the reader to become a programer. Examples are easy to follow but explanations are simplistic and do not provide much insight.
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Summary: NOT a good book
Review: This author seems to like to make himself sound smart with long words and complicated paragraphs. Its highly annoying as no one has any idea what he's on about. For example, look at this quote I took from the book: "CLASSES Classes are agggregate declarations consisting of data member functions. A class encapsules the implementation and iterface or a user defined data abstaract data type, also know as user defined type. The class's implementation - its private members - is unavailable to the programmer who instantiates objects of the class. The class's public interface is provided in the form of methods - public member that operate on numbers." Thats the example on Classes. those who feel enlightened, this book is for you. Those of us who just went "what?!", this book is not for you. Oh, and by the way, that was in chapter one page 15, in the lenghy and boring introduction.
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Summary: Worst Book ever
Review: This book has no target audience. The author mentions in the beginning that you should already have some understading of C++ but then starts from scratch. His explaination are cursory at best, often times stating the same idea twice; both time in incoherant babble. His explaination present no detail of whatever he is describing. Don't get this book. There are plenty other ones that are better!
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Summary: Don't buy this book!!! It's a waste of $$$$
Review: This book is way too simple, yet complicated at the same time! The author uses so many unnecessary words that he confuses you. The examples are of no value and have typos and give you absolutely no insight. Instead, I would recommend C++ Primer Plus by Steve Prata which is thorough, yet easy to understand.
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Summary: I don't recomment this book at all.
Review: This book lacks in technical detail and there's too many unnecessary words. Examples are lousy.
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