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Summary: trivial code, plenty of mistakes, no way to get correct code
Review: First, the CD purported on the front cover to be "packed with ready to use code" contains slightly over 2mb of uncompressed source.

The methods used in several sections are trivial to worthless. In the first chapter considerable analysis is given to a bubble sort. Fine, but the other methods are hardly better. AND the source had to be modified to run on my Borland compiler which objected to some mis-applied functions in these exceedingly simple examples.

The back cover proclaims "The ultimate collection of robust code and expert techniques..". 2mb of trivial methods belie this.

Overall there is way too much analysis ado over mostly trivial methods.

I respect Herb Schildt who wrote the preface and recommend his "Teach yourself C++" way, way over this book.

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Summary: It's an Ok introduction
Review: I agree with the majority of reviews, this book isn't as good as it sounds. Haven't tried using the code, but thought it was in a poor object oriented style, and doesn't lend itself to reuse straight off the CD.

A more detailed review an overview of the books chapters can be found at www.tarsiersoft.com/BR/cppaa-en.htm

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Summary: It's an Ok introduction
Review: I agree with the majority of reviews, this book isn't as good as it sounds. Haven't tried using the code, but thought it was in a poor object oriented style, and doesn't lend itself to reuse straight off the CD.

A more detailed review an overview of the books chapters can be found at www.tarsiersoft.com/BR/cppaa-en.htm

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Summary: Interesting collection of code snippets
Review: I'm definitely in the minority here. I love these kinds of books. I find them a refreshing change from the continual stream of beginner/introductory C/C++ books that cover the same information over and over again ("hello world"). This book covers a lot of things that don't fall within the neat confines of the standard C++ primer, especially if you consider the Visual C++ genre.

This book covers a lot of ground, much of it is in the form of annotated source code: sorting, linked lists, b-trees, performing financial calculations, statistical applications, and implementing language interpreters in C++.

There are relatively few C++ classes in the source code. The bulk of the code is straight out C coding, to which C++ purist may object.

Although it bills itself as compiler independent, the chapters on Internet programming and fractal graphics are pretty much Visual C++ all the way.

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Summary: Interesting collection of code snippets
Review: I'm definitely in the minority here. I love these kinds of books. I find them a refreshing change from the continual stream of beginner/introductory C/C++ books that cover the same information over and over again ("hello world"). This book covers a lot of things that don't fall within the neat confines of the standard C++ primer, especially if you consider the Visual C++ genre.

This book covers a lot of ground, much of it is in the form of annotated source code: sorting, linked lists, b-trees, performing financial calculations, statistical applications, and implementing language interpreters in C++.

There are relatively few C++ classes in the source code. The bulk of the code is straight out C coding, to which C++ purist may object.

Although it bills itself as compiler independent, the chapters on Internet programming and fractal graphics are pretty much Visual C++ all the way.

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Summary: trivial code, plenty of mistakes, no way to get correct code
Review: there are many mistakes in this code, most of which is trivial anyway. I contacted the person, at the email address provided on this book, got a response of acknowledgement but never got any corrected code, or instructions on how to get it through ftp etc. I'll be careful not to get burned by these authors again.