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Summary: Do Not Purchase!!
Review: I am currently using this book for a textbook in my C++ class. It is terrible. The layout is bad, and there is no quick easy reference section. And the examples....let's not get started. I suppose that if you had prior knowledge in programming this book would be okay. But otherwise, stay away from it.
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Summary: Why to write such a book
Review: I dont understand why these two authors are wasting their time by writing such a non sense book. Thi sbook is meant to be for someone who is really a C++ programmer. So, the title of the book should be: ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE 10 YEARS experience in C++. DOnt bother and buy the book. It is raelly not simplified. Thank you
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Summary: Why to write such a book
Review: I dont understand why these two authors are wasting their time by writing such a non sense book. Thi sbook is meant to be for someone who is really a C++ programmer. So, the title of the book should be: ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE 10 YEARS experience in C++. DOnt bother and buy the book. It is raelly not simplified. Thank you
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Summary: Good for learing, even better for reference
Review: If you want to learn C++, this is the book. It covers the areas very well, perfect examples, and brilliant syntax definitions. If you learn the metods in the book, you will have a nice clean coding habit, which will be of good use at any time. The CD-Rom that comes with the book is not of great use (if any at all), but never the less, this book covers all of the basic areas giving the reader a insight into all aspects WITHOUT confusing him. Once you have learned C++, it is a VERY good book to use for reference.
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Summary: Very badly written book
Review: The authors definitely had good intentions in writing this book, unfortunately it came out a little bit different. I had to buy this book, despite the fact that I had a couple of others, because it was required by my college instructor. It has a few fundamental defects, which make it very difficult to use as a textbook. First of all, one might assume that it is intended for a beginner, because it covers lots of elementary material found in any beginner book. At the same time authors intend to introduce the reader to more advanced topics of OOP and here the problems arise. In whole book the reader cannot find one place where the exact form of header file definition is written. You have to search other books or the header file listings to figure out how. But this is one of the most important steps in learning to write your own classes! Another, even bigger defect is the authors' presentation of examples. Solutions (mostly sketchy) of pretty difficult problems are given in a space of a couple of pages, which can only form an impression that either the authors are geniuses, or the readers are idiots, if they are unable solve the same problems that fast. Where is the natural, gradual approach, which is necessary for understanding any serious science (and C++ definitely is one)? Is there any procedure or mechanism to determine if the declaration and implementation of a class is complete and no more attributes or variables are necessary? One could expect an answer to this question from a book completely devoted to OOP, but don't expect to see it in this book, as well as answers to many other important questions.
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Summary: This book sucks!
Review: This book is a horrible book to start off with. If you have prior programming knowledge you'll be ok with this book, however, I have found many other books that are better than this one which were much cheaper. I haven't found a single thing I've liked about this book so far...
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Summary: Excellent book showing a consistant, thoughtout approach.
Review: This is a very good text book for learning the fundamentals of C++ programming. It is well thought out and consistent with worked examples that are developed throughout the book. It offers the student the opportunity to work through a lot of material and this is essential for becoming confident at using C++ concepts and syntax. What is particularly interesting about this book is the way that analysis is applied to different problems as it is frequently the most difficult step of all to see a problem in terms of a possible programming solution. Continually repeating these steps is the only way to begin to see how to breakdown problems so that they become amenable to solution. The diagrams in the text also show the same thought and care and are genuinely useful. I am grateful to the authors for the effort and thought that has gone into this work. However, there are a couple of places where perhaps two or three lines of additional text explanation would help, such as in the Tower of Hanoi solution. What I am thinking about here is the general principal of using variables passed by constant reference in the solution. One needs a general handle on why/how this works so successfully. There may be one or two other places in the text where this also applies. Another interesting point is that this text can be used with considerable success without access to a computer! This may seem like a strange comment, but where I teach not everyone does have consistent access to a computer in the facilities of the University nor can they, necessarily, afford a computer of their own. Sometimes an inconsistent resource is worse than just using paper and pencil! However, where systems, or your own PC, work properly the CD resource makes this book particularly good value. My only disappointment is that Prentice Hall have not followed up with the instructors manual to the original promised deadline.
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Review: Too hard to understand explanations. Also there are no explanations how work with Visual C++ progamm, and CD in the book contain only Vicual C++ 5 (old one!) education vers. Very bad book for beginners.
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Summary: Very badly written book
Review: You will not know what I mean untill you buy and use this book. It is not meant for first semester students as the review mentioned. It sucks...examples are so hard, and approach used in the book in so difficult to understand
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Summary: This book is a piece of...
Review: You will not know what I mean untill you buy and use this book. It is not meant for first semester students as the review mentioned. It sucks...examples are so hard, and approach used in the book in so difficult to understand
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