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Rescued By C++ 3E

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For those of us who know all too well that buying the wrong books can be costly monetarily and also of precious shelf space, not to mention a deterant towards learning due to improper instruction. This book recieves my highest acclaims and is worthy of purchase. I knew nothing of C++ programming and in just studying the first 50 pages, I began writing simple programs to increase my retention. I highly recommend that the reader purchase a complimentary book like, Ivor Horton's, "Beginning Visual C++ 6" and Microsoft's, "Visual C++ 6.0 standard edition" compiler. With these proper tools, consider yourself equiped and ready to handle C++! Enjoy!

When I started out programming C++, this was the first book I got. I never bothered to learn C, since C++ basically IS C...with more features. This book does an excellent job of explaining what the code you write actually means and what's it's doing. That is the high point of the book. It doesn't just say, "OK, type in the following lines of code and see how Hello World! appears on the screen." No, none of that. It takes you line by line and describes every one. For the "#include" and "void main(void)" commands, it goes into paragraph-length detail about what/how/why they do what they do. Simply excellent writing. It increases your programming skill at quite a steady pace, and you can go from clueless (I mean literally CLUELESS) to beginner/intermediate in a very short time. Are you wanting to learn how to program in C++ but have had little or no programming experience in ANY language whatsoever? If so, this book is definitely for you!

I have tried couple books on the Topic of C++, lippman's c++ prime, C++ in 21 days and so on. Those books are good but they direct you a long way to the point you really want to learn. The book, Rescued by C++ gets you to the point directly.Plus the Codes are complete and runable. Try to debug them and you will know the concept. How ever, It's just a book for beginner you still need another book and more examples for advanced study on C++.

This is the gratest C++ book for beginner. I have teach yourself and other kinds of C++ book. But none of those are as clear as this one. The example is so clear to explain the concept. I highly recommend this than any others book to beginner.

I have read other books on c++ programming but no other puts it as simply and straight to the point as this one. Many other books can overwhelm the beginner with too much info all at once, where this one breaks it all down into small, easy to read and understand chapters. This is definitly not an advanced level book with all the info on how the software interacts with hardware and covering every aspect of the language but thats not the books intention. It gives the beginning programmer (new to c++ or programming overall) a good entrance to c++ programming. If I had studied this one first I wouldn't have wasted a good deal of time trying to made heads or tails of some of the others out there.

The book promises you can complete each of its 30+ lessons in 10 to 15 minute sessions ...

I may be a slow typist -- I think I probably spent 30 minutes with most lessons -- but then, I experimented some.

Book is very easy to follow. I had not programmed before ... didn't own a compiler (there is one on the CD -- so I have still never bought one ...)

I was did great with the basics. I am still working through the inheritance and polymorphism (which I didn't know was a word ... which may add to my lesson time). I will get there -- I start with the code on the CD-ROM -- normally experiment enough to make things stop working -- but the book normally gets me back on track.

Wish this guy had a book on Visual Basic.

When I was learning C++, I stumbled around with the "learn c++ in 21 days"-type books and then a friend recommended this one to me.

It really is excellent. However, I do recommend learning C before you learn C++....

It goes over the features of C++ well, with plenty of examples.

Although, I kind of wish it had programming exercises along with it...

My review will be a little biased since I already had experience with C before reading this book. I jumped in at the middle in order to find more out about C++ features. I like the style of the book. Each chapter lists goals, goes through several examples each building on top of the other, re-emphasizes the goals, and finally lists a summary of the chapter. If you are looking for tricks/tips for C++ or are an experienced programmer, this might not be the book for you. However, if you have some basic programming knowledge, this book flows well and is quite understandable.

This is an excellent C++ book to learn from (which I did many years ago) but most recently a quick 2 hours refresher using this book allowed me to succeed in a job interview including technical test when I hadn't used C++ for many years.

The book covered everything I needed for my data structures class -- structures, arrays, classes, even some basic polymorphism.

Wish it covered more windows API programming ...

It was great for my Unix/Linux environment.