Fundamentals of Program Design and Data Structures with C++

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Summary: A good book...but difficult to understand
Review: This book takes programming concepts introduced in Fundamentals of C++: Understanding Programming and Problem Solving to make programs that focus on data abstraction. It does this because it assumes the reader has millions of lines of data and needs to organize it in a coherent way. For example, in Chapter 1, it explains methods to sort data in alphabetical and numerical order, and in Chapter 4, it explains organizing data into a linked list. These ideas are pretty clever, but it took several readings of the text to understand what it was actually saying. In addition, the programs the book included as examples were not totally complete and asked the reader to finish the programs by themselves in several occasions. The programs didn't even work because the version of C++ used to create them was different from mine. For example, the book used as an include file several times, which didn't even exist on my version. I give this book three stars because it gave the reader the opportunity to understand important programming concepts that are used in the real world but did not explain them thoroughly enough. I liked the introductory book better because it was clearer, but then again, the concepts in the first book were a lot easier.

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