Customer Reviews

Memory as a Programming Concept in C and C++

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3 star:		(1)
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I agree with the other reviewers. In general this is good book. It bridges the gaps between many computer science disciplines. Especially OS and programming language. It also touched a little bit on computer architecture and linking process. The text was written in a a very clear way. However, I do have two complains. The author didn't spend enough effort on the relatively more complex and advanced topics. Eg, linking process for C++, advanced topics in memory leakage detection and prevention. On the other hand, author spent too much energy describing linked data structure in terms of serialization. I personally don't think its relevance is higher than the advanced memory leakage issues. For seasoned profressionals, this book can be used to refresh your knowledge. It is a beginner level to intermediate level book.

An older book that could be helpful to readers interested in this book is "Inside the C++ Object Model" by Stanley B. Lippman. It was written in 1996. It shows things such as the layout of C++'s organization of (pointers to) virtual and inherited methods.

The viewpoint adopted by this book is an original one, while the insights range from the elementary to the very advanced. The material is well organized, the writing style is excellent, there are numerous examples and exercises. In a world dominated by C/C++ programming, it is a book that I think every professional programmer/computer scientist/software engineer could read with profit.

First I would like to state the reason I gave it 4 stars. In my opinion, 5 stars should be very hard to reach. Maybe I would give this 4.5 stars if it was possible. Anyway, I'm a self taught VB 6 programmer with a working knowledge of the Windows API. First year CS student, though I've read many a book on C and a few on assembly. I have a large CS library and this is the first book of it's kind that I've found. It is a little pricey if you compare book size to other, larger CS books, but I don't think it is overpriced. The material is great, though I wouldn't say it is a beginner level book. I had trouble grasping enough of the material that it causes me to think either I've still got a long ways to go in learning (more so than I thought at least), or it is just not for the beginner.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is serious about a programming career, regardless of the language. The book's relatively small size should not be a negative factor. It is not densely packed with information to the point where interpretation is needed, instead it explains in sufficient detail without dumbing it down by over-repetition and such used by some other CS books. It is aimed at C/C++ programmers, so being familiar with those is a prerequisite, obviously. Like another reviewer said, there seemed to be a little too much discussion on, say, serialization of linked data structures, an important topic with regards to memory yet I felt a little more emphasis could have been placed elsewhere.

This book was recommended to me by a colleague at work; I'm really glad I listened to his recommendation. While I've been programming in C/C++ since 1990 (other languages for two decades before then) I found the concepts/ideas put forward in this book to be very useful in improving my memory use habits. No matter how well you think you know memory management, you can learn something from this book. I only omit one star because some of the examples were not as clear as they could have been.

I felt that this book was aimed to first or second year college students. In my opinion,
It doesn't teach you about memory as a programming concept but rather the relationship of a program and memory in a computer.I do agree with the author on the notion that most students and many programmers do not understand how their programs run inside their computer. They know the buzz keywords such as process, thread, heap, stack and might be able to define them but in a very obscure shallow semi-taboo manner. This book will help you to understand the role of memory in your "Hello, World!" programs. I'm not giving five star because I'm not student anymore and the book is a little bit pricey (understandable from an academic publisher), but it is fun book to read.

Some people have tremendous gifts for teaching and writing, I believe Franek is one of them, the content of the book is quite basic, but Franek's writing style and the way to ask tricky questions is way above average instructor/teacher, it simply taps your interest for more, another merit is the exercise of each chapter, all answers are published in author's website.

This is written for the programmer who isn't sitting in front of their computer. Because of this, the book is very readable. If you can go through this book and understand the concepts, you will be worlds ahead of most CS undergrads in their first year. It really ought to be required reading.

Excellent coverage of all the memory routines. Lucid explanation but could have added a few more illustrations. Nevertheless, a book that which must be read by all professional C & C++ programmers.

The book is an excellent one. The author had made is sincere effort to make the concept very clear.The book is well organised in order to eliminate all ambiguity among topics. All examples are well said with the correct context. I think this book is for practical programmers who love the art of programming.