A C++ Primer for Engineers: An Object-Oriented Approach

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Summary: Not "for engineers," that's for sure
Review: I don't know how exactly this book is "for engineers." It covers the same things any other introductory C++ book does, except in a less intuitive fashion. Keep in mind that none of the examples in the book are geared toward a scientific audience; you'll find the same badly-designed and outdated string/vector/matrix classes, horrible memory management practices, and primitive console user interfaces found in any other C++ book... only for twice the cost.

I bought this book for a "scientific computation" class at the beginning of the semester. What a waste.

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Summary: Over priced good reference for engineering students
Review: I was pleased to see a programming text aimed at engineering students that has the guts of what is needed for writting c++ code. I would have liked to have bought this text, but at over $40 for a paper-back it is way over priced - should have been about $25.