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Teach Yourself ANSI C++ in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself)

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This book will really teach you C++, it is richly detailed with hundreds of code listings that I was able to type in and compile. It starts very basic and leads up to more complex data structures, classes and objects as well as pointer and references. It is rich and detailed. I really learned usefull c++!

I bought this book a few years back. If you want to learn and understand C++ quickly and easily then this is the only book you need. The book is targeted at C++ starters. Full points to the Authors of this book.

Although other books in the "Teach Yourself" series have
been receiving bad word of mouth lately for being rushed
to press, I found this book to be well-written, easy to
understand (for the most part), and accurate. I looked
at most of the other C++ books before choosing this one
because of its structured approach and easy-to-follow
explanation of classes and object oriented programming
in general. Highly recommended.

This is one of 3 books that I recommend if you want to learn C and C++. In fact, I think so highly of it that I have had to purchase it several times because I keep giving my copies to friends (who also think highly of it).

I bought this book because I had to learn C++ very quickly for work. I was not disappointed at all. I stayed right on schedule and gained a good working knowledge of the C++ language. I think that the directed learning style of this book is great. I have years of experiance in C, COBOL, Pascal, assembler, Lisp, and many scripting languages, so I may not be the best one to go by.

I think that it's a good book for who'd like to begin programming

With all due respect to the author, this book shouldn't have been published in the first place.

1. The author is mistaken about the basic concept of data encapsulation, and insists on using accessor functions to access class data members in class member functions (copy constructor, operator=, etc.).

2. The author uses lengthy (yet trivial) programs to illustrate the concepts, when a code snip would suffice.