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Summary: Top notch C++ book for those new to C++
Review: I am very pleased to say the book I ordered "C IN PLAIN ENGLISH" is in excellent condition and I received my order so fast I was amazed. I'm a customer for life!
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Summary: More than just a quick reference
Review: I picked up this little gem at the beginning of my C++ course and I can't recommend it highly enough. The first half of the book is a quick reference and well laid out. This section contains chapters on operators, keywords, library functions and i/o stream classes to name some. The second half is a good introduction to C++ and explains difficult concepts, as the title says, in plain English. Pointers, classes, inheritance, operator overloading and virtual functions are all in here. There is some plain old C code in there as well, but all the latest C++ stuff is explained. There's also a neat glossary towards the back.
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Summary: Excellent for the Beginner
Review: I was searching for the ideal C++ reference, and was pleased with this book until I went to look up info on iterators and strings. I was horrified to discover that all info on the C++ Standard Template Library was left out!! Imagine that on a 3rd edition book copyrighted in 2001! Its chapter on "C++ Strings" talks about *gasp* C-Style strings (ASCIIZ, terminating with '\0') instead of the elegant C++ string class. The "template" feature is well covered, but it ignored the fact that there are already wonderful containers for your use. Yes, the book reads well with good style, but is a "C++ as a better C" book instead of a "C++ Language" reference. The size, price, formatting and usefulness is what other books lack (although I would also nit-pick about creating thumb-tabs for the C-library reference section too). Too bad this book lacks the content of the other books.
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Summary: Pleasant Surprise
Review: I wasn't expecting much out of this book, but it's really QUITE GOOD. Nice reference to keywords, functions and nice tutorial that goes over the language in pretty throughly. No C++ book is perfect, but for the intermediate-beginner, this one is quite good.
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Summary: Pleasant Surprise
Review: I'm a hardware guy that programs in assembly but frequently uses C and C++. So I forget how to do things once in a while, especially if there is a gap from when I start a project and when I get back to it. This book gently reminds me how things work and, if I need greater detail, it has short, to the point, tutorials and explanations.
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Summary: Great Reference, and in English too
Review: I've programmed before and have read Teach Yourself C in 21 days, as well as the Wrox Press C++ tutorial that comes with MSVC++ 6.0 STD. They were OK, and what I'd expect from people with technical minds (like mine), but I got confused when I learned about structures, linked lists, templates, etc. This book actually translates much of the keywords to English in a little section between Ch. 9 and 10, like a C++-to-English dictionary. There are explanations of many, if not all, standard functions in the back. The tutorial is in an order that I've never seen before, is quick, and gives sample code that uses simple programs rather than the usual "Here's the biggest thing you can do so far" style that most books do. It goes from simple to advanced pretty quickly, but easily, so I suggest writing a few programs of your own in each chapter just to get familiar, just in case you haven't programmed before. Oh, and if you think you need another book to learn with, and need this to help, well, I would seriuosly disagree. This covers more than any book I've seen so far, from beginner to advanced, so all you need is this one, even to just get started.
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Summary: Excellent for the Beginner
Review: If you are just learning C++ and feel completely lost, this is a great reference book. I am taking a C++ course at college and they gave us the Deitel & Deitel, C++ How to Program, and I was almost completely lost. The classroom book assumes you know C++ even though it is a beginning class, go figure! Anyway, C++ in Basic English has really come in handy. I use it all the time to help me understand all those keyword, functions, iostreams, library functions, etc. The book is tabulated so you can easily get to the section you want. The book breaks down each keyword, function, etc. It give you the purpose, definition, syntax, examples, plus any additional info that is needed. This book is also inexpensive which makes it even more valuable. I hate spending lots of money on books, especially if I find that they are basically worthless to me. Anyway, I highly recommend this book to the beginning C++ programmer or anyone looking for a great C++ reference book. I am recommending this book for future use in my C++ classes at my college.
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Summary: Best book on it's topic
Review: It could sound like I perhaps worked for Brian Overland but I just wand to express that this book impresses me again and again. It is a really well written book. I buy every new Edition that comes out of it. It is so well written and organized that I often use it as reference when I discuss documentation quality with our documentation department. No kidding, it makes learning C++ as exciting as reading a novel. I would recommend this book to any C++ developer even as a every day reference. It has literally no overhead like so many other books and shows many ways of doing the same thing in a short compressed way. The book fully lives up to a "one-of-it-kind" as it states on the back cover. Brian, keep up the good work.
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Summary: You might need another book.
Review: It uses to much C-style syntax(code). I would recommend Practical C++, C++ for Dummies, or maybe even C++ for idiots.
The Sams teach yourself are not bad either.
But read the book over at a nearby bookstore if your thinking about purchasing it.
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Summary: The best book to learn c++ and good for reference
Review: Ive spent along time trying to learn c++ until i found this book, it has a mini section on how to program in c++ at the end of the book which explained everything very well and once i knew what i was doing i would tend to forget once in a while so i would refer back to the beginning of the book and find all the answers i needed. I suggest this book to anyone who wants to learn how to program fast or to people who want to use it for reference.
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