I have gone through a little over half of this book so far, and I feel I need
to write a review based on a few things I have seen.
1. The book is very well organized. It starts from absolute basics, and builds
on everything from there. This makes going from chapter to chapter very easy.
2. Some of the examples are very easy, and others are not. You do not want a
book that does everything for you. You might get stuck for hours, but in the end
you will learn something, which leads me to...
3. The downside of this book (actually I noticed that could be debatable), is
the number of typos in the examples of code. You can tell that the editors did
catch all the copy-paste mistakes as they were made quite a bit. But sometimes I
sat for hours wondering why my code wouldn't compile only to realize he made a
typo mistake. One of them I remember is when he had done a 'switch' statement,
he left out the integer expression... and being a newbie, it takes awhile to
catch. And he confuses his pointer names A LOT, naming one *pt then switching
to *pn. The up-side to this is you will be fixing people's code in the real world,
debugging, etc... so that's how I look at it. But frustrating nonetheless.
4. Sometimes it isn't quite clear how he is explaining a certain point, but
after thinking about it a bit, it starts to make sense later, usually in examples
or when he explains other ways of doing it. For the most part, the explanations
are pretty good.
Bottom-line, the standard hasn't changed too much since this edition so unless
you want to fish out top-dollar for the 6th edition that is out now, this one
will do fine; I got mine new for $10 shipped.
I actually started with Java as my first language and classes, objects, etc
didn't make too much sense until I studied them in C++ from this book... I
recommend studying C++ as a first language rather than Java like most schools
and universities do as Java is a more higher level language than C++, meaning
it has a little more abstraction level, however in theory Java is 'easier' to C++.
Just that C++ answered all my problems I had with Java.
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I grew up on BASIC for Dartmouth to Microsoft and CB80; I have gone through various languages such as Pascal, Visual BASIC, and Lisp. Much of the old code is spaghetti (which adds a layer of security through obscurity). To clean it up a modular design was added and the use of "goto" (still in the C language) was discouraged. This made following the code clear and cut down on redundancy. Still, C is the closest high-level language to come close to assembly and works best through the use of pointers and addresses. Then the clutter reappears with C++ trying to imitate OOP and other fancy concepts. This slowed it down to no better than the original BASIC. The advantage in this book is that it is not cluttered with C++ that forces you to extrapolate the original C concepts when writing fast tight code for communications or large programs with limited resources.C Primer Plus (5th Edition)
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