Moving from C to C++

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Summary: Excellant book for C programmers trying to learn C++
Review: As the title suggests, this is an excellant book if you are already a strong C programmer. The books starts with an easy transistion from C to C++ outlining "a better" C. It then moves smoothly into OOP concepts and does an excellant job of explaining each. If you don't know C, I would not recommend the book - there are better tutorials for novices. However, if you know C well and wish to make the transition, I strongly recommend this purchase.

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Summary: Great book
Review: Excellent for people who learn C and want to move to C++. Even if you dont know much about C, it is still a good book for beginner in programming. Highly recommanded.

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Summary: Great book for first steps
Review: My introduction to this book was when I was reading its prequel -"C++ Programming 101" by the same author. The 101 book was great in that it gave me a quick overview of the input and output features in C++. It does not cover much about OOPs.

Moving from C to C++ was the book that I exactly needed next. The concepts were wonderfully explained and I was able to finish this book in about a week. As the name suggests, the beauty of this book is that it explains very clearly how C++ overcomes some of the pitfalls of C. I had a little background in C and could therefore appreciate some of these points. If you are new to C++ but have some background in C, I strongly recommend this book.

Once I finished this book, I was able to sweep thru C++ how to program by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel in a couple of weeks. I would recommend the following stratergy for new comers to C++

a) Read C++ programming 101 - Greg Perry to get an overview of some basic C++ stuff (no OOPs)

b) Read Moving from C to C++ next - This will bolster your OOPs aspect of C++ big time

c) C++ How to program by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel
- This is a huge book but with ur concepts clear, u shud be able to finish this book in about 2 weeks.

I read all these books in about a month before my classes (in C++) began and I think it really helped me.

Rating:
Summary: Great book for first steps
Review: My introduction to this book was when I was reading its prequel -"C++ Programming 101" by the same author. The 101 book was great in that it gave me a quick overview of the input and output features in C++. It does not cover much about OOPs.

Moving from C to C++ was the book that I exactly needed next. The concepts were wonderfully explained and I was able to finish this book in about a week. As the name suggests, the beauty of this book is that it explains very clearly how C++ overcomes some of the pitfalls of C. I had a little background in C and could therefore appreciate some of these points. If you are new to C++ but have some background in C, I strongly recommend this book.

Once I finished this book, I was able to sweep thru C++ how to program by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel in a couple of weeks. I would recommend the following stratergy for new comers to C++

a) Read C++ programming 101 - Greg Perry to get an overview of some basic C++ stuff (no OOPs)

b) Read Moving from C to C++ next - This will bolster your OOPs aspect of C++ big time

c) C++ How to program by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel
- This is a huge book but with ur concepts clear, u shud be able to finish this book in about 2 weeks.

I read all these books in about a month before my classes (in C++) began and I think it really helped me.

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Summary: An Easygoing Introduction
Review: The cover art for this book shows "C++" as a pit of hellfire and brimstone in an otherwise clear and open road, with sulfurous vapors rising from it--which matches my opinion of C++, so I figured the book would be worth a try, given that I have to learn C++.

So far, it looks like a reasonable, gentle introduction to the language, but at the beginning there are some pretty basic errors in its discussion of C that make me wonder whether I'll be misled about C++. Cases in point: pp.16-17, where the author claims that the sizeof a variable of type char is sizeof(int) in C (it's not, even though in C, "character" constants actually have type int); p.24, where the author says that in C, uninitialized variables have random contents (that's only true for automatics; others are zeroed). It looks pretty thorough, though, so I hope a new edition with corrections and updated to deal with the new (draft?) standard and libraries will come out (though considering that these days, "introductions" to C++ are running at 1200 or so pages, I expect that would be a LOT of work).

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Summary: Excellant book for C programmers trying to learn C++
Review: The cover art for this book shows "C++" as a pit of hellfire and brimstone in an otherwise clear and open road, with sulfurous vapors rising from it--which matches my opinion of C++, so I figured the book would be worth a try, given that I have to learn C++.

So far, it looks like a reasonable, gentle introduction to the language, but at the beginning there are some pretty basic errors in its discussion of C that make me wonder whether I'll be misled about C++. Cases in point: pp.16-17, where the author claims that the sizeof a variable of type char is sizeof(int) in C (it's not, even though in C, "character" constants actually have type int); p.24, where the author says that in C, uninitialized variables have random contents (that's only true for automatics; others are zeroed). It looks pretty thorough, though, so I hope a new edition with corrections and updated to deal with the new (draft?) standard and libraries will come out (though considering that these days, "introductions" to C++ are running at 1200 or so pages, I expect that would be a LOT of work).

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Summary: Good reference, but not a book for beginner
Review: This is not a great book for beginners. We used that book once for C++ class in UCDavis. The instructer regret to choose this book for as the text for student. However it is a good reference book for those who already know how to programm in C++.