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Summary: Perfect
Review: Being one of the best ANSI / ISO C++ books I have ever read, Holzner will cover everything about C++ with great detail. The format of this book is smooth to follow, showing you how to code efficiently and properly. The author describes the examples in the book line by line, explaining every section of the code. Beginning programmers, even with little or no experience, will be amazed at how effortlessly they can learn from this Black Book. As for any serious programmer, I would describe Holzner's work as the perfect reference for C++. Each topic presented will gradually help you to become closer to a programming expert.
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Summary: Redundant and Not Sufficiently In-Depth
Review: I did a lot of research before buying this, and a lot of it was based on Amazon customer reviews. Unfortunately, buying this book was a mistake! I can't say it is a bad book, because it isn't BAD... But I was thoroughly disappointed with it.It has an unusual structure where it first introduces the concepts of the chapter, and then it has an 'immediate solutions' section at the end of each chapter where the author demonstrates what you've already learned. This book could be half as thick! Also, I found it to be frustrating as a reference book. Very few books can be a good reference as well as teach, though, so I didn't take away many points for that shortcoming. The other problem, is that many techniques are really glossed over. I found myself having to re-read the passages over and over trying to figure out for myself how something worked. I enjoy in-depth technical explanations for the things that I learn, and they were hard to find in this book. Many things should have been explained more instead of simply REPEATED! In summary, I would not recommend this book to ANYONE. I am a fairly advanced programmer, but somehow never learned C or C++ before I got this book. I felt that the book did a decent job at teaching me the concepts and syntax, but overall I did not feel confident with what I learned in this book. I wish I could recommend an alternative, but unfortunately I don't know of any good C++ books!
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Summary: Student
Review: In simple words,This book rocks ....
It Covers everything including STL.The concept of Classes is clearly explained through appropriate examples.
Though one may feel the editing is bad,it actually gives you the chance to revise the concepts you already studied, while going through the chapter.
so i think the editor did a good job.
It's certainly one of the best books i've read on C++.
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Summary: could try harder
Review: in some parts this book is very good, but is let down with some poor examples. When describing structures the author uses a definition, names the call and the instance all the same: struct structure {...}structure1; but in others he does it well struct person {} ralph much easier to follow why not do that throughout Steven (if you are reading this) you can waste a lot of time just figuring out what is going on. It's thick because very exmaple is repeated 20 times. I agree with another review also, the depth is sometime lacking in places but in others it just uses concepts not explained at all. if he cleans up the examples the book is ok, I am learning and it is difficult to know how it compares as it cost me 80 bucks and I can't afford another book so I guess I'll continue.
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Summary: The ONLY C++ Book
Review: No matter how you want to use it: Reference - It has a very descriptive and useful index to find exactly what you are looking for. Detailed, yet simple examples to demonstrate workings of the C++ Language without clutting you with nonsense. (Like C+++ Program Design by Cahoon-Davidson). Learning - Guides you through the book in such a way that you know exactly whats going up upto that point in the book. I also believe it is so ingeniously written that it helps you learn the language and not just put code into situations. For Beginners to Advanced Users - Contains just about anything you would possibly need to learn the C++ Language.
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Summary: Good Book for Intermediate C++
Review: Started out with this book to improve my BrainBench score beyond 3. It really helped to improve my fundamentals which you may not get in the classroom.
The introductory explanation of STL and templates also helped in improving my template coding abilities. For more advance programming, Exceptional C++ by Sutter and C++ Programming by Bjarne Stroustrup are recommended. You can also throw in Scott Meyers book for support. Good references and code are also got from CUJ.
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Summary: Great Book, Must have for Beginners
Review: The C++ Black Book is one of the best learning books for any future programmer. It does a wonderful job on explaination and description on coding, lines, and everything else in the book. And, unlike some learning books, their are no errors in the coding in this book (as far as I have read their have been no errors: Pg. 465). If you want to learn C++ and don't have time to learn 2 or 3 other languages, then pick up this book. It does not require you to have previous programming knowledge, so just pick up the book and you're ready to learn...
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Summary: Redundant++: Black Book
Review: This is a bad book. It move very slow and covers concepts sometimes two or three times, and other concepts it doesn't explain at all. I've had this book for about five days and I just started chapter 2 (about 80 pages in), and have barely learned anything. A concept is introduced, then the writer says he will cover it later in upcoming chapters, but proceeds to explain it, then a few pages later explain it again. The persons who edited this book should be unemployed, because they obviously didn't do nothing for this book. I've ordered Sam's Teach yourself c++, and I hope that one is a lot better. I do not recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Get this book, toss the other ones you got in college
Review: This is the only C++ book I own. Every other one I've bought and had to read for school, I've sold back. This is all you need. I'm sorry, but I only need about 500 words on function overloading, not 7000. Concise, easy to read, good for beginners too.
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Summary: the C++ book.
Review: This should be the only C++ book you must own! Awesome as a reference for advanced C++ programmers, and layed out in peferct form for anybody to learn C++ from the ground up. Highly recomended for anybody into C++ programming ANSI/ISO standard. Also includes a CD-ROM with extra documentation.
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