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Schaum's Outline of Fundamentals of Computing with C++

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If you don't already know the C programming language, this is probably a pretty good book on C++ programming basics. It goes into control structures, arrays, strings, pointers, recursion, and abstract data types, among other topics. It even has a good introductory chapter on the basics of computing that even includes information on the binary and hex number systems. In that sense, it is good enough to stand alone as a pretty good textbook. However, there is one major component missing from this outline that is essential for anyone who claims to know C++ in any meaningful way, that being any mention of object-oriented programming constructs as expressed in the C++ language. If you don't know object orientation as it is expressed in C++, then you are just a C programmer programming with C++ notation. Thus, this outline is not wrong, it is just woefully incomplete. I still give it three stars because for the right audience it is a good beginner's text at a very cheap price. For those who are interested in learning object orientation as it is expressed in the C++ language, I instead recommend "Schaum's Outline of Programming with C++". In that book there is less of an emphasis on algorithms and computing and more of an emphasis on teaching the complete language with all of its components.

I am a 12 year old male who just happens to be interested in learning C/C++. Someone showed this book to me and highly recommended it. I have found that the text is simple to understand even to a novice starting for the first time, and that it is completely stuffed with useful examples. I am going to buy this book -- you just wait!

Schaum's Outline of Fundamentals of Computing with C++
This book is a good tutorial for C++, with a lot of history and interesting examples. It is fun to learn from this book basics of computing and C++.

This is the C++ guide in the famous Schaum's outlines series. It teaches you the foundation's of C++ fairly well, as usual with a great load of examples and code snippets. We are used to this by Schaum.

What I am missing is in-depth information. How do I use make to compile bigger programs? How do I use the STL? How do I use glib?

This book will scratch the surface, and will probably be an ok guide for a novice. But if you want to take a step further after the first weeks of learning C++, you will have to look elsewhere.