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Summary: Not bad.. but sure not for experts....
Review: C++ is a very complex language, to become an expert in C++...oh man.. u gata do a lot .. this book does not really convay its title..or may be it does by saying that Mr. 'Schildt' is an expert in C++ only up to this books level.. In other words.. the book does cover some intresting things.. but... intermiddiate programmers < like me..> already knoiw most of things described.. i thought the book will be elaborating on those topics discussed in the table of contents ... id did not...
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I learned C from Herb Schildt so expected this to be a great book, but it isn't. For example, it's supposed to be an expert c++ book, but the language parser example is proceedural, not object oriented.
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Summary: Great book for advanced topics
Review: I used this book to gain a better understanding of the more complex topics of C++. I believe the descriptions along with the examples are a great way to teach a difficult subject. For anyone wanting a better understanding of complex subjects, this is the book
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Summary: Great book for advanced topics
Review: I used this book to gain a better understanding of the more complex topics of C++. I believe the descriptions along with the examples are a great way to teach a difficult subject. For anyone wanting a better understanding of complex subjects, this is the book
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Summary: Exception Handling, If your a novice don't use it.
Review: Yes. As an intermediate-novice programmer I thought this book was great when I read it. It gives code examples on complex issues for a novice. However don't think about using the exception handling mechanism with this book as the only source. It only teaches the syntax and meaning of the syntax in the language. Not how to use it safely (I think). "...naive programming of exception handling typically leads to resource leaks and incoherent object states." (Ben Stanley, C/C++ Users Journal April 2001 page 36). Therefore a highly recommended book is Exceptional C++ by Herb Sutter (se other references in the article). Also Schildt is weak on defining the "const", "const_cast", "static_cast"... effectively. This go evident also in his other book "C++ from the ground up". For instance there is no discussion on why one would not prefer some casts at all in an object system. Casts is inherently dangerous for system that show up some nice behaviour in the beginning but only to crash when data types changes (the computing address "function" is in error).
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