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Summary: Good discussion on threads
Review: Finally, a book that addresses threads in a meaningful way. Lots of working code examples that launch, synchronize, and prioritize threads.
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Summary: Thank God for something easy to follow!
Review: Had to take a course on C. The textbook was awlful(C by Dissection). This book saved me. Thanks again JAMSA!!
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Summary: Thank God for something easy to follow!
Review: Had to take a course on C. The textbook was awlful(C by Dissection). This book saved me. Thanks again JAMSA!!
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Summary: Finally complete working C++ source code
Review: I am just learning C++. Been programming in C for a while. The book has about 500 C++ programs I could experiment with. The CD has Borlands C++ compiler which helped me get started. Can't comment on C# yet.
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Summary: Excellent coverage of a variety of topics
Review: I bought this book after doing some research for a good C++ book. I had decided on a completely different title when I discovered this one on the shelf and I bought it instead. This book is not "light reading" by any stretch of the imagination. It is instead almost 1200 pages of fact after fact about C, C++ and C#. It is divided up into sections and subsections, covering first the C language, then moving on to C++, and finally introducing C#. Under each language the author has gone into very deep details about even some of the most obsure topics, making everything very accessible with example code and detailed explanations about the topics he is addressing. The reader will be hard-pressed to come away with a lack of understanding. The coverage of standard language constructs is very deep. The C++ coverage includes a lengthy section for STL topics, writing your own templates. These are hot topics and the coverage will not disappoint. Where this book really shines is, as stated above, its depth in coverage. While not exhaustive, it covers some topics in so much detail that a reader will have no doubts regarding the functionality available. Some of the material is very dated. For example, there is a hefty section about memory model programming, dating back to the 16-bit OS days. For a huge majority of us, this information is historical in value. Anyone still working in the 16-bit world will benefit more. Another section that shows its age involves direct screen writes, again going back to the days prior to 32-bit Windows. This book has one flaw, in my opinion, and it's that it's geared towards Windows developers. I suppose the C# aspect is indicative of that for now, but other more fundamental operations, such as spawning child processes, are discussed in a very Windows-centric way. I think the book would have been perfect if there was some contrasting information for the way UNIX and Mac handle this kind of operation. For the Windows developer, there are several sections adding up to over 250 pages that discuss Windows application development. AFTER that, it plunges into .NET topics, giving an excellent primer. Although this book is geared towards Windows developers, much of it can be applied to other platforms. It is an outstanding book for its coverage of the languages it targets and should be considered when searching for a book on C or C++.
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Summary: Excellent coverage of a variety of topics
Review: I bought this book after doing some research for a good C++ book. I had decided on a completely different title when I discovered this one on the shelf and I bought it instead. This book is not "light reading" by any stretch of the imagination. It is instead almost 1200 pages of fact after fact about C, C++ and C#. It is divided up into sections and subsections, covering first the C language, then moving on to C++, and finally introducing C#. Under each language the author has gone into very deep details about even some of the most obsure topics, making everything very accessible with example code and detailed explanations about the topics he is addressing. The reader will be hard-pressed to come away with a lack of understanding. The coverage of standard language constructs is very deep. The C++ coverage includes a lengthy section for STL topics, writing your own templates. These are hot topics and the coverage will not disappoint. Where this book really shines is, as stated above, its depth in coverage. While not exhaustive, it covers some topics in so much detail that a reader will have no doubts regarding the functionality available. Some of the material is very dated. For example, there is a hefty section about memory model programming, dating back to the 16-bit OS days. For a huge majority of us, this information is historical in value. Anyone still working in the 16-bit world will benefit more. Another section that shows its age involves direct screen writes, again going back to the days prior to 32-bit Windows. This book has one flaw, in my opinion, and it's that it's geared towards Windows developers. I suppose the C# aspect is indicative of that for now, but other more fundamental operations, such as spawning child processes, are discussed in a very Windows-centric way. I think the book would have been perfect if there was some contrasting information for the way UNIX and Mac handle this kind of operation. For the Windows developer, there are several sections adding up to over 250 pages that discuss Windows application development. AFTER that, it plunges into .NET topics, giving an excellent primer. Although this book is geared towards Windows developers, much of it can be applied to other platforms. It is an outstanding book for its coverage of the languages it targets and should be considered when searching for a book on C or C++.
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Summary: Wow! 3 programming languages in one book.
Review: I had just finished Jamsa's Rescued by C# (easy way to get started) -- and I wanted to take my next step. I have worked my way through 70 of the hundreds of C# tips the book provides (there are 1700 tips on C, C++, and C# in all!) ... I knew C/C++ (or thought I did until I looked that the 1400+ tips ...) so jumping right into the C# tips was great. The C# tips are meaty ... I am already using reflection to query objects. One complaint ... the book is huge ... if it falls off my desk, it could smoosh my cat!
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Summary: You can do better
Review: I have read through the book as well as other reviews and can only offer some simple advice...choose carefully. In the early days, the name "Bible" was used by the Waite Group for their C & C++ Bibles. Those basic commands in the C++ version are still good today. The book published the command, the structure, and the example usage code in full. "This" book is organized into tips. It takes awhile to find the right tip and its corresponding page. This book contains many, many pages of text providing extremely few examples shown in the context of completed code (unlike Waite Group). There are references to older Windows' calls yet commands related to Winsock/WinAPI aren't present. The .NET environment is described in almost exclusively C#. I suggest you try to visually peruse the book before buying and not to choose solely on the listing of the table of contents.
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Summary: Excellent starter
Review: I just purchased this book and already it proven invaluable learning resource. I especially like the string handling techniques.Some of these techniques should be used in college courses as they can prove to be techniques students would use frequently.
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Summary: Exellent transition from C->C++ and a great reference
Review: I last wrote C in the mid 80s and wanted to learn C++ to write some software that had been on my mind for about 10 years....after a few other books and a few weeks learning a bit about C++ I happened across Kris' book. The great point for me was this was the first book I read that took a C person through the transition to C++ in an understandable fashion. The depth and breadth of the book is far in excess of the others that I bought. And the book worked....I've written the piece of software I wanted and have even sold copies of it!!! An investment in a book doesn't get any better than that!!!
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