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Summary: Know Something Before Reading
Review: The book is a very good book for those experienced programmers. It talks about how to manage your C++ programming (this is what the author called software engineering approach) and has a good review of the concepts about C++ programming. However, if you don't know C programming and have no experience in any language programming, please don't use it. The author puts some hard materials on the very first chapters, such as functions and objects. The author didn't clearly put definitions or concepts first and then explain by examples. Rather, the concepts are not highlighted and are only explained if needed. This means you have to look for the concepts by yourself. This might be what the author said: reducing those unnecessary contents. Honestly speaking, it's an excellent book because it teaches something of what programmers might be unaware, such as data and memory managements. So I suggest it for experienced programmers.
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Summary: This guy writes decent, but braggs so much
Review: The book would be ten times better if the author does not put on almost every page why his books are way better than the other books. He emphasizes this too much and makes us think that his opinion only counts. The book is sort of easy to follow and has some great examples in it as well. I wish he had some exercises especially for us college students. But sometimes he gives us too much examples which is pointless like learning how to program with Global variables. The book does not come with a CD as well that should come with programs that us users should follow and show us how they work. But I only read a couple of chapters and so far the book is just plain okay. The guy just braggs and too full of himself.
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Summary: This guy writes decent, but braggs so much
Review: The book would be ten times better if the author does not put on almost every page why his books are way better than the other books. He emphasizes this too much and makes us think that his opinion only counts. The book is sort of easy to follow and has some great examples in it as well. I wish he had some exercises especially for us college students. But sometimes he gives us too much examples which is pointless like learning how to program with Global variables. The book does not come with a CD as well that should come with programs that us users should follow and show us how they work. But I only read a couple of chapters and so far the book is just plain okay. The guy just braggs and too full of himself.
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Summary: Core C++ A Software Engineering Approach
Review: There are a lot of shorter books; but they only teach the syntax and not how to use the tools of C++. Victor teaches how to use the tools. I have been showing other programmers (some well-seasoned) his book. Victor shows some better ways to do things, even to those who have "experience". Efficient programming is all about design. He shows a software engineer's approach to problem solving. All to often, I see programmers just pouring out syntactically correct code but bloated code (code that could have been thought through a little better and made to be more efficient). Mr. Shtern, well done. Your book is great.
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Summary: I agree with Mr. Shtern
Review: There are a lot of shorter books; but they only teach the syntax and not how to use the tools of C++. Victor teaches how to use the tools. I have been showing other programmers (some well-seasoned) his book. Victor shows some better ways to do things, even to those who have "experience". Efficient programming is all about design. He shows a software engineer's approach to problem solving. All to often, I see programmers just pouring out syntactically correct code but bloated code (code that could have been thought through a little better and made to be more efficient). Mr. Shtern, well done. Your book is great.
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Summary: GOOD BOOK
Review: This book is easy to read, easy to understand. This book will actually teach you and not just tell you about the language like some other books do, well written. I am a veteran C++ programmer and I still found this book useful.I give 2 thumbs up to this book. Good job Victor Shtern!
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Summary: Core C++ A Software Engineering Approach
Review: This book is easy to read. I read the pointer which I have already known from C. The approach of the author seems to tell the students mechanically memorize some rules. That is not what I like. One can nest the pointer as deep as he wants. It is not that difficult to understand. I assume who learns C++ is smart enough to figure it out. It is just a memory location and look into the memroy location. It is not a big deal, maybe the first few times it is difficult. Also, the book is very thick. I agree one of the readers, the author can cut half easily without losing any points. 'Time is Money'. There is no point to just 'learn a language' to spend months to read a book. I am working, I don't have infinite time to spend to read the same point over and over again. I still admire the C book I have from the Bell Lab author. It is easy to read, it is so thin and it covers everything it needs to say. I don't know if it is wise to spend more time to read this thick book or get another one that I can get the idea much faster. I will give 2 stars for easy to read nd the effort the author he wrote this book! I doubt this is really for engineering course, an engineering course won't spend 1000 pages on one language. This takes way too much time. I hope the author can reduce the paper, save the tree.
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Summary: All over the place
Review: This book is very hard to follow. The author shows you many examples and at the very end (after you think you're beginning to understand) states not to code like this. Doesn't give many examples backed with reason for good code technique. The writer also tends to be a little scattered. I would recommend the Dietel & Dietel C++ book.
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Summary: Gain an intuitive understanding
Review: This is an excellent book on C++. In a nutshell, it will give you an in depth understanding of C++ so that you find you don't need to memorize certain rules, you have a basic, intuitive understanding of this complex language.
I am a software engineer with most of my experience in C and some in C++. One day while programming, I found myself befuddled with virtual functions, base/derived pointers and objects, etc. I realized that I lacked a basic understanding of the issue and so went to the bookstore and spent a couple of hours looking at all the books on C++. This book was the only one to explain the concept I was lacking. I have since read much more of this book and referred to it on many occasions. I am a better C++ programmer because of it. The explanations are clear and in-depth with plenty of code examples. Thank you Victor Shtern.
Rating:
Summary: Gain an intuitive understanding
Review: This is an excellent book on C++. In a nutshell, it will give you an in depth understanding of C++ so that you find you don't need to memorize certain rules, you have a basic, intuitive understanding of this complex language.
I am a software engineer with most of my experience in C and some in C++. One day while programming, I found myself befuddled with virtual functions, base/derived pointers and objects, etc. I realized that I lacked a basic understanding of the issue and so went to the bookstore and spent a couple of hours looking at all the books on C++. This book was the only one to explain the concept I was lacking. I have since read much more of this book and referred to it on many occasions. I am a better C++ programmer because of it. The explanations are clear and in-depth with plenty of code examples. Thank you Victor Shtern.
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