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Summary: useless
Review: Impossible to understand anything. If you though of buying this book, forget it. It is better not to have any book than this.
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Summary: Opinion of a C++ Instructor
Review: In my opinion, this book is below average. According to the chapters it covers, this should be a book for beginners at programming. But by reading the book, only non-beginners would be able to follow all the examples. Rather than rely on the feedback of one person, I will give you the feedback of the students that I taught with this book. Most students beginning a programming class will have a hard time understanding this book that assumes that you already know a lot about math and logic. When I tried assigning homework from this book, most of my students had problems just understanding what the math and logic of the problem would require, and couldn't concentrate on the programming concepts. There are quite a number of inaccuracies in it as well, such as it's miscalling preprocessor directives a compiler directive. It also calls an array a data type which it is not, it is a data structure. It also calls the exponent of a scientific notation a characteristic. That term is only used in the natural science community. Even the IEEE standard for floating-point numbers calls it exponent and not characteristic. One of its first examples starts with a standard input statement without prompting the user with what input the program expects. These little annoying problems with this book have caused me to abandon it all together. I would much rather recommend Diane Zak's Fundamentals of Programming in C++ if you are a beginner to programming.
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Summary: C++ Student
Review: Provides very little applicable knowledge of developing code for an enterprise. Buy ANY OTHER BOOK besides this one!
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Summary: Horrible
Review: Provides very little applicable knowledge of developing code for an enterprise. Buy ANY OTHER BOOK besides this one!
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Summary: Thinking of buying? Forget it !!
Review: This book isn't for any beginner!! I've read it for about 150 pages now, and still don't know what it's talking about !?
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Summary: What a terible book
Review: This book was awful, it was no help at al
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Summary: Works well when accompanied by a talented instructor
Review: This book was required for a C++ course I attended at the local community college. I had been doing some minor programming in other languages but felt I needed at solid foundation in C++. This book would have been a difficult place to start. However, thanks to a talented and very patient instructor, the entire class did well. I would have given at least a four star rating but this Addison/Wesley paperback was very poorly published. Pages fell out daily throughout the semester. Have some tape and glue handy.
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Summary: Works well when accompanied by a talented instructor
Review: This book was required for a C++ course I attended at the local community college. I had been doing some minor programming in other languages but felt I needed at solid foundation in C++. This book would have been a difficult place to start. However, thanks to a talented and very patient instructor, the entire class did well. I would have given at least a four star rating but this Addison/Wesley paperback was very poorly published. Pages fell out daily throughout the semester. Have some tape and glue handy.
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Summary: Not for the Beginner / Advanced
Review: This book was required for the first semester programming class. Now I was able to understand 'cause I was in CS and had been programming for 10 years. But the history majors in my class were crying cause this book couldn't really explain the basic concepts. many of the intro to programming classes are core classes in Univs in US. So, a guy who's in CS, I assume wouldn't have any problem cause it's way too low level for him. Whereas those who really need this book..Art majors, or those who want to learn what programming in C++ is..will have a tough time..I wouldn't recommend this book..cause it's too poor for a guy who knows C++ and too tough for those who don't.. They haven't been able to get that balance. Another interesting point I was able to observe was that this text gives all source code example with Visual C++ in mind. Most of the Univs in US prefer to teach this course on Unix platforms, and so a book more relevent to Unix would be appropriate. I give it 2 stars, cause it isn't all that bad a book that doesn't make sense. I still go back to it sometimes to look up the syntax and some basic stuff..But nothing more than that.
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Summary: Not for the Beginner / Advanced
Review: This book was required for the first semester programming class. Now I was able to understand 'cause I was in CS and had been programming for 10 years. But the history majors in my class were crying cause this book couldn't really explain the basic concepts. many of the intro to programming classes are core classes in Univs in US. So, a guy who's in CS, I assume wouldn't have any problem cause it's way too low level for him. Whereas those who really need this book..Art majors, or those who want to learn what programming in C++ is..will have a tough time.. I wouldn't recommend this book..cause it's too poor for a guy who knows C++ and too tough for those who don't.. They haven't been able to get that balance. Another interesting point I was able to observe was that this text gives all source code example with Visual C++ in mind. Most of the Univs in US prefer to teach this course on Unix platforms, and so a book more relevent to Unix would be appropriate. I give it 2 stars, cause it isn't all that bad a book that doesn't make sense. I still go back to it sometimes to look up the syntax and some basic stuff..But nothing more than that.
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