Starting Out with C++: Early Objects (7th Edition) 7th Edition

by Tony Gaddis (Author), Judy Walters (Author), Godfrey Muganda (Author)

37 ratings

ISBN-13: 978-0136077749

ISBN-10: 0136077749

Why is ISBN important?

Paperback

$16.71 - $99.99

Other Sellers

from

Other Sellers

See all 3 versions

Used: Good | Details

Sold by Jenson Books Inc

Fulfilled by Amazon

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime

FREE delivery Sunday, February 13 if you spend $25 on items shipped by Amazon

Or fastest delivery Friday, February 11. Order within 12 hrs 53 mins

Only 1 left in stock - order soon.

Sold by TrueLife Trade and Fulfilled by Amazon.

Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free Prime shipping.

List Price: $144.00 Details

Save: $44.01 (31%)

FREE delivery Sunday, February 13

Or fastest delivery Thursday, February 10. Order within 12 hrs 53 mins

Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free Prime shipping.

Tony Gaddis’s accessible, step-by-step presentation helps beginning students understand the important details necessary to become skilled programmers at an introductory level. Gaddis motivates the study of both programming skills and the C++ programming language by presenting all the details needed to understand the “how” and the “why”—but never losing sight of the fact that most beginners struggle with this material. His approach is both gradual and highly accessible, ensuring that students understand the logic behind developing high-quality programs.

In Starting Out with C++: Early Objects, Gaddis covers objects and classes early after functions and before arrays and pointers. As with all Gaddis texts, clear and easy-to-read code listings, concise and practical real-world examples, and an abundance of exercises appear in every chapter. This text is intended for either a one-semester accelerated introductory course or a traditional two-semester sequence covering C++ programming.

From the Back Cover

Gaddis Books—Understanding from the Start!

Tony Gaddis's best-selling Starting Out With... series provides accessible, detailed presentations of programming concepts using an approach that will increase the confidence and competence of beginning programmers.

The Starting Out With... series includes textbooks that meet most course and teaching styles.

Starting Out with C++: Early Objects, 7th Edition ©2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-607774-9
ISBN-10: 0-13--607774-9

This book is ideal for a multi-term Introduction to Programming course or an accelerated one-semester course that introduces object-oriented programming early.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Introduces object early— students learn to write classes and create objects in Chapter 7 before covering arrays and pointers.
Covers both procedural and object-oriented programming.
NEW! The VideoNotes integrated with this text help augment students' understanding of difficult topics by stepping through programming examples and problem solutions. Icons throughout the text— and a table inside the front cover— show which topics are expanded in a VideoNote. VideoNotes are available on this book's Companion Website at www.pearsonhighered.com/gaddis.

Starting Out with C++: Brief Version 6th Edition ©2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-13--602253-4
ISBN-10: 0-13-602253-7

This book fits a one-semester Introduction to Programming course that introduces procedural programming before objects.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Covers procedural programming—control structures, functions, and pointers—before presenting objects.
Introduces objects late— students learn to write classes in Chapter 13.

Starting Out with Games and Graphics in C++ 1st Edition ©2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-321-51291-8
ISBN-10: 0-321-51291-X

This book employs graphical examples and simple, complete video games to teach introductory programming skills and C++.

HIGHLIGHTS:
- Uses a late-objects approach, ensuring that students grasp programming fundamentals before moving on to more powerful object-oriented concepts.
- Incorporates graphics, animation, audio, and game programming to motivate students.
Starting Out with C++: From Control Structures through Objects 6th Edition ©2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-321-54588-6
ISBN-10: 0-321-54588-5

This book is perfect for a multi-term Introduction to Programming course that includes coverage of data structures.

HIGHLIGHTS:
- Covers procedural programming—control structures, functions, and pointers— before presenting objects.
- Includes four chapters covering data structures topics—linked lists, stacks and queues, recursion, and binary trees.,/li>
- VideoNotes step students through programming examples and problem solutions.

About the Author

Judy Walters is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. In addition to her many computer science courses, she enjoys teaching a freshman course on film and literature. She also enjoys studying foreign languages and cultures, and recently developed a new course in technology and society, which she taught in Costa Rica Fall 2005, as part of the college's international studies program.

Godfrey Muganda is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, where he chairs the Computer Science Department. He teaches a wide variety of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels including courses in Object-Oriented Programming, Comparative Programming Languages, and Complier Design. His primary research interests are in the Fuzzy Sets and Systems. He won the North Central College faculty award for outstanding scholarship in 1993.

Tony Gaddis is the principal author of the Starting Out with series of textbooks. Tony teaches computer science courses at Haywood Community College in North Carolina. He is a highly acclaimed instructor who was previously selected as the North Carolina Community College "Teacher of the Year,” and has received the Teaching Excellence award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. Besides C++ books, the Starting Out with series includes introductory books using the Java™ programming language, Microsoft^® Visual Basic^® .NET, and Microsoft^® C#^®, all published by Addison-Wesley.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 7th edition (March 4, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1200 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0136077749
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0136077749
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.16 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.8 x 1.7 x 10 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,207,122 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #829 in C++ Programming Language
- #5,749 in Computer Programming Languages

Customer Reviews:
37 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Tony Gaddis

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more

Customer reviews

5 star		65%
4 star		18%
3 star		10%
2 star		2%
1 star		5%

How are ratings calculated?

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

C. Hughes

Love Tony Gaddis Series

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2012

Verified Purchase

I've used Gaddis' Java and now C++. I love his style of presentation. I'm just learning both languages so I like the consistency of his format, which gives an introduction and then an extended code which focuses on the subject that he introduced. I use the phrase "extended code" because I took a visual basic class using text by a different author. That author would give an introduction and then show the code out of context so it was hard to conceptualize what he was talking about or how to use the code. With Gaddis, the code is in a functioning. He would introduce the subject of the code. Utilize a program that uses the code and then break down the code to highlight the code of topic. His style felt "comprehensive".

In addition to Gaddis' personal style of presentation, his text is part of the Pearson Higher Education publications. Pearson is student oriented so there are online tutorials (video notes) which offers a lot of student assistance. I recommend this text and Gaddis to any instructor or student learning programming.

12 people found this helpful

Helpful

Ashton MacKenzie

Make it available for other Kindles already!

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2013

Verified Purchase

I bought this as eBook version because, let's face it, if you're a commuter student who doesn't want to fight for parking, you don't want to lug this doorstopper around. You can safely assume that programming students have broadband or at least enough internet to be willing to download this book in the first place since it's available for some Kindle apps but not all.

I have used Calibre to side-load it on my phone and on Paperwhite so it's not like this is impossible. Just green light it for your other apps so that way I can use XRAY please!

Since I put it on my new Paperwhite I have actually begun to enjoy using it, it's great to just search for it. When I'm on a question I can usually just search a phrase form the question and I'll find it earlier in the text. I almost don't even read the book anymore, just look for the reviews and answer all the questions.

So just put the caveat "Large File, might take a bit to download" on it and stop with this only available on some Kindle Apps garbage. It clearly works. And I can have all my C++ in pocket-size format which is nice.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

dadisme

Textbooks are difficult to use on the Kindle

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2012

Verified Purchase

The textbook is organized well and gives good examples of the code and how to use it. It explains the programming language well. I originally bought it for my Kindle so I wouldn't have to carry a large textbook around campus, but I found that referencing it was just difficult in the electronic media compared to a regular textbook. I actually ended up buying the regular textbook as well, and used it at home as a reference and just carried the Kindle to campus. The Kindle version is OK for reading chapters, when you're just reading through. But if you need to search it as a reference, or flip back to review another section, etc., it is very difficult to use. For my next class, I will just get the regular textbook and save the double cost. It would be nice if the electronic copy came with the regular textbook purchase, but I'm not going to pay for both again.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

James Yanni

A little heavy on the jargon.

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2014

Verified Purchase

This book was okay, but it's a stretch to call it "accessible". Someone who is not already familiar with the jargon of programming would almost certainly get lost in the chatter here. It probably is very useful for someone skilled in another programming language to learn C++, but it would be very difficult for a novice programmer to learn to program beyond the very elementary basics using just this book. It would be a worthwhile supplement to a course, however, with a teacher to explain the confusing parts.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

DFenny

I was glad to have this for my beginning programing course

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2016

Verified Purchase

I was glad to have this for my beginning programing course. Most likely if you're reading this then you are merely choosing between digital or getting a beat up used version from the school store. Go digital. It's worth it.

Helpful

SR Polwort

Early Objects is the right way to learn C++

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2013

Verified Purchase

This book is probably the best C++ text I've read. Most C++ textbooks teach you from a procedural perspective first. They cover pointers and arrays and parameter passing before they delve into classes and objects. This one does it the other way around. By the time you get to pointers and parameter passing, Tony actually shows you how they are used in classes and object instantiation. Where I found the Horstmann text lacking (Big C++), this book delivered. It was exactly what I needed to really learn OOP in C++. Highly recommended.

Helpful

Chris Khoury

Accessible for a non-human language

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2012

Verified Purchase

I have several [C++] textbooks that delve into the subjects of programming. The aforementioned text [Starting out with C++ Early Objects, 7th (e)] is extremely helpful, with quite a bit of information. It [C++] is the required text for the upcoming semesters, and not just my introductory class, so it covers beginning C++, intermediate C++, and introduction to data structures. I highly recommend this text, as the language of programming can be fairly abstract, and the authors take care not to intimidate even the most illiterate in technology.

Other texts can be rather audacious in their assumptions of the average readers comprehension of mathematics. Fortunately, I am rather skilled with math, but that should not be a decisive factor in this purchase, as the the first couple of chapters implement example after example with regards to the translation of mathematics into codes and strings.

All-in-all, I highly recommend this book. Computer science is the innovation of the future, and the demand for said skills is higher than ever.

P.S. Most computer science textbooks are atrociously expensive at campus bookstores, so I highly recommend to purchase it on amazon. Also, you could buy it used, as the IDE [Integrated development environment] used in the book is Microsoft Visual Studio (2005, 2008, 2010...any version) which can be downloaded from the Windows software site (Visual Studio Express is free).

My campus bookstore charges $220 for this book, I got it for $98 [New] here on amazon. Brand New books come with video lectures and Microsoft VS 2010, however if you can get used and save even more, that would work too, just make sure to download Visual Studio Express.

5 people found this helpful

Helpful

Starting Out with C++: Early Objects (7th Edition) 7th Edition

Buy used: $16.71

Buy new: $99.99

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

About the Author

Product details

About the author

Tony Gaddis

Customer reviews

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Buy used:

$16.71

Buy new:

$99.99