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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Objects and Classes Documentary Worth While Reading,
By Neil W. Fisk (Edmonton, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: C++ Primer for C Programmers (J. Ranade Workstation Series) (Paperback)
It's easy to conclude from others,don't expect to learn C in this text, cause it was intended rather to be a transistion for those who know the C language to merge into C++. That's exactly what the author relay's to the reader, but I'm surprised no one found this book to be useful. It clearly states objects, data members, and classes, with simple blocks of code which are concise and easy to adapt the new C++ classes over the old C struct. I've tried reading Deitel and Schildt in the past to overcome these obstacles, but was not successfully until now, however I believe Schildt is catching up with his expertise and style of teaching. But what a bargain when I purchased this title, I like this book because I was able to interrupt a style of writing in such way to produce trouble free code forming pointers, and class instances.I highly recommend this title if your share the same enthusiasm to merge over to C++.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Bad C++ Book,
By A Customer
This review is from: C++ Primer for C Programmers (J. Ranade Workstation Series) (Paperback)
Bad book. I bought this book almost a decade ago as my first C++ book. I was a C programmer at the time and I bought the book because of its title. It confused me at the time and immediately shelved it. Now, almost a decade later as a highly experienced C++ programmer, I decided to revisit this book because I was cleaning up my book shelf and getting books that I no longer use. This one surely goes in the trash. Examples are poor and the overall organization is terrible. Definitely would not recommend this book to learn C++, and it is useless as a reference book. Also, the sections on Object Oriented Programming just shows that the authors did not understand OOP at all. All their examples show the breakdown of classes as actions/verbs which is the most novice mistake that programmers make when designing an OO system. The classes in the OO examples should be the functions, not classes! You don't name classes "add" and "delete" then have functions called "add_info" and "delete_info". The correct OO way is to create a class called "info" with functions called "add" and "delete". Given this most simplistic example and having the authors getting it wrong, this book should be burned since it would steer readers into bad programming techniques. Bad book.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Stay away!,
By A Customer
This review is from: C++ Primer for C Programmers (J. Ranade Workstation Series) (Paperback)
I'm a good programmer, but trying to learn C++ from this bookcost me... money... and months of time. The examples seem to be written by someone who just doesn't understand the point of object oriented programming; the thinking behind the examples is just muddled and 90 degrees off base. In fact, the entire book is muddled -- stay away & get C++ for Dummies (if you want to learn C++) or Stroustup's books (if you need a reference).
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