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Summary: Not Quite for Beginners
Review: This is not one of those Dummies books, or one you can learn in 12 or 21 days. This book shows you how to do Object Oriented Programming the right way, an area where many other books on the subject fall short. You are taught to do programming in a compartmentalized way, which more fully exploits the benefits and features of the C++ language. By using the methods in this book, you will create code that is more readable, reliable, and easier to maintain. The methods described will steer you away from those potentially weird and unsolvable problems, something which is very valuable, and yet most books seem to do a poor job at explaining. This alone earns the book 4 stars! As a beginner I found this book really difficult to learn, and had to rely on other books in order to get a better grasp on the basics. Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (Jesse Liberty, 4th edition) is a much better book for the beginner, and covers many things that were left out of Lafore's book. If you buy both books, you will find yourself way ahead of the learning curve, and might even find yourself being a much better programmer than most of the people out there doing this for a living, however, be forewarned, that your learning doesn't end here, and that C++ is a very difficult and time consuming language to learn.
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Summary: Highly recomended for advanced C++ programmers. Amazing.
Review: This is the best book on OOP using C++. It is writen in simple, cpomprehensive and easy to understand manner ( as all Robert's book ) but it has the most essential information than any other book in C++ programming I have picked up so far. I am an advance PL/SQL programmer and when I was reading this book I was learning how to do some stuff with PL/SQL on top of C++... This is a bible for C++ programmers.
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Summary: Very good book
Review: To learn C++ language and its standard libraries- This is one of the best...I think.
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Summary: Good book
Review: Very well explained and with good examples, you can use the Borland C++ compiler to test it.
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