C++ from the Beginning (2nd Edition)

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Summary: Good but not a reference book and lack examples.
Review: I had some prior knowledge about programming concepts before reading this book and I was glad of that. Although the book covers very basic issues as well as fairly complicated issues like data encaptulation, inheritance and polymorphism I found the book to lack a lot of examples. It's my experience that only I can teach my self a given programming language through writing examples and "play" with these. The examples in the book however, are small and always assumes you've just made the prior part of an example a few pages back and that just doesn't work for me! It's not a bad book but you'll need to supplement with another book to show you more examples.

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Summary: The book is well written, but would like an answer book.
Review: I have bought many books on C++ for college courses, but this one is much easier to learn from. It gives good examples, and builds on these pieces of information to give the user a good understanding. The only suggestion would be to have a book of the exercise answers available to purchase. The course instructor is using this book for background info, and not making assignments from it, so the answers to the exercises would be helpful to my learning effort.

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Summary: Excellent for Beginners
Review: The type of the teaching for this book is all build-up upon the examples and it doesn't refer to the C knowledge of the reader,so even if you don't know anything about C,this book can take you to the medium level.Good starting book.