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C++ Primer For C Programmers

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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++.

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.

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).

I checked this book out of my university library to help familiarize me with C++. I've never seen such a horrible programming book. Aside from the numerous and frequent errors in the example code, the explanations were misleading and often wrong. More often, the code given in the examples actually obscured the point that author(s?) were trying to make. Normally, I would just return the book and thank my lucky stars that I did not have to spend my own money on this waste of printed paper, but this book is so bad I felt that I should share it with Amazon's customers. There was only one previous review and it was a 5-star. I'm not sure if Amazon will allow me to give this book 0/5 stars, but it certainly deserves it.

I can't give enough warning about how bad this book is. If you want to learn C++ and increase your programming ability at the same time, steer well clear of this book.

I read this book shortly after its release, as a teen looking to step up from Turbo C 1.5 to Turbo C++ 3.0. I went through most of it in about 3 weeks, but even as the completely self-taught programming novice I was at the time, I found a number of errors in the examples, not to mention annoying grammatical quirks. For such a simple volume, it should at least have been proofread and accurate.

Admittedly, I was able learn the basics quite quickly, but if I could go back & do it all over again, I would definitely pick a different book off the shelf.

The author promises to demystify C++ and she does exactly that. The book is a beacon of light shining into a dark realm of wise guys, tough guys and smart alecs.