Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (2nd Edition) 2nd Edition

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An Introduction to Programming by the Inventor of C++

Preparation for Programming in the Real World

The book assumes that you aim eventually to write non-trivial programs, whether for work in software development or in some other technical field.

Focus on Fundamental Concepts and Techniques

The book explains fundamental concepts and techniques in greater depth than traditional introductions. This approach will give you a solid foundation for writing useful, correct, maintainable, and efficient code.

Programming with Today’s C++ (C++11 and C++14)

The book is an introduction to programming in general, including object-oriented programming and generic programming. It is also a solid introduction to the C++ programming language, one of the most widely used languages for real-world software. The book presents modern C++ programming techniques from the start,

introducing the C++ standard library and C++11 and C++14 features to simplify programming tasks.

For Beginners—And Anyone Who Wants to Learn Something New

The book is primarily designed for people who have never programmed before, and it has been tested with many thousands of first-year university students. It has also been extensively used for self-study. Also, practitioners and advanced students have gained new insight and guidance by seeing how a master approaches the elements of his art.

Provides a Broad View

The first half of the book covers a wide range of essential concepts, design and programming techniques, language features, and libraries. Those will enable you to write programs involving input, output, computation, and simple graphics. The second half explores more specialized topics (such as text processing, testing, and the C programming language) and provides abundant reference material. Source code and support supplements are available from the author’s website.

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Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++, as well as the author of The C++ Programming Language, Fourth Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2013), and A Tour of C++ (Addison-Wesley, 2014) and many popular and academic publications. Dr. Stroustrup is a managing director at Morgan Stanley in New York City, as well as a visiting professor at Columbia University and a Research distinguished professor at Texas A&M University. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM fellow. His research interests include distributed systems, design, programming techniques, software development tools, and programming languages. He is actively involved in the ISO standardization of C++.

Paperback: 1312 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (May 25, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321992784
ISBN-13: 978-0321992789
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Timothy

text is printed in color and easy to read

December 14, 2015

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There are a few frustrating mistakes and the author tends to use overly complicated syntax for simple code. Overall, the presentation is modern,text is printed in color and easy to read. The explanation can be a bit more in-depth.

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James

Great, but slightly incomplete.

November 11, 2016

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I love this book, I'm only a few chapters in, but it is very well written. However, it appears to be slightly outdated, as I needed a tiny bit of previous knowledge of c++ to get the first programming part of this book done in Chapter 2.2. Still a good book though.

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Pranava Teja Surukuchi

Great book for course-style preparation

January 21, 2016

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I have some experience coding in Java and once I moved to C++, I had to un-learn some of the things and this book so far has been very helpful, although I have been just half way through the book.

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Charles Simpson

Very good book to pickup the basics of the C++ programming ...

September 22, 2016

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Very good book to pickup the basics of the C++ programming language and general programming practices that reading the C++ Programming Language does not give you.

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MarbleTech

Not just a reference

December 26, 2015

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I was pleased to find that this book isn't just a reference for C++, but it also contains style tips and common idioms. I recommend this to anyone interested in C++ that wants a good reference book.

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Haley S Curtis

Even I am able to understand its use because it is intelligently written.

January 25, 2017

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Bought for less than Barnes and Nobles' price, my 19 year old son is able to use the book rather than have it sit on a shelf. Even I am able to understand its use because it is intelligently written.

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Linda

Superb introduction to programming

July 28, 2012

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After reading the beginning chapter online, I could tell that this book had been written thoughtfully and I had to have it. I'll be taking a course soon where I need to know C++; it's only covered minimally in the class, and I've only had minimal exposure to it. I know some other languages, like Java, but I'm stalled at the "advanced beginner" stage.

What I like most of all about this book is the size of the chapters. They are all in very readable chunks. Also, the exercises are likewise very short and doable as long as you read the chapters. I rarely got stuck, but I have to say those times I did get stuck I learned a little bit more. I also like that when he refers back to a previous section, he gives the section number so you can find it.

The author actually created C++, so you can't find a better authority. Yet, he doesn't talk over your head and get too technical. I like his little tidbits about "real" programming. There's some humor, but it doesn't ever become annoying.

What I like least (and I'm only up to chapter 4) is that this is written at an absolute beginner level. You need not have programmed one bit to use this book. That's great for some, but if you have any programming experience, you may find some parts tedious. Certainly some of the exercises can be skipped. But, even if you think the solution is easy, sometimes when you try it out, you run into obstacles, so try as many as you can.

There are no printed solutions to the exercises and only a few posted online, so your only feedback (unless you're using this as a text in a regular classroom) is whether the program worked. I don't know if I'm programming the most efficient way.

All in all, I'm looking forward to the more advanced chapters. This book is huge and it covers a lot, unlike many intro books that give you the basics then stop. Don't be intimidated; this book goes step by step. I only wish that the same author could write the same book about more languages!

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Andrea Schioppa

excellent book

June 14, 2014

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this is not a book about c++ but a book about programming and one learns c++ as a side-effect; concepts are introduced gradually and one can master many skills; I think pedagogically the method is very effective

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