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Title: Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit (3rd Edition) by Jesse Liberty ISBN: 0-672-32224-2 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 24 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Know OOP? Want to get into C++ quick? Get this book.
Comment: This book has *got* to be the easiest read for getting up to speed on C++ that I have found to date. The examples are totally straightforward. The book is well organized and pulls no surprises for the reader. However if you don't know Object Oriented Programming (OOP) you *might* have a hard time picking up some of the finer details of just how truly powerful C++ can be. In that case I'd recommend *also* getting Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in C++". The combination of the two of these books will have you writing solid code in no time.
Rating: 5
Summary: A clear introduction to C++ programming
Comment: One thing I really like about this book is the way the examples are done. Each example is as simple as it can be and still illustrate the point. No effort is made to make the samples do something functional, which allows the reader to concentrate solely on the concept and not get lost in a complex example. By keeping to things like very basic classes with only a few member variables, the examples are easy to follow. This book is a great place to start if you are a beginner.
Rating: 2
Summary: Look elsewhere for C++ instruction
Comment: I'm halfway through this book and am having serious doubts about the quality of its instruction. First of all, I am a professional programmer (C, PHP, PERL, Shell, some Java) and have a degree in technical writing, so I feel qualified to make some observations here.
First of all, the author breaks several rules of good technical writing, including using future tense, subjunctive mood, indefinite pronouns, and passive voice.
Second, the author's writing style is supposed to be conversational, but comes off as indirect and disorganized.
Third, the examples are poor, being completely inpractical, yet also verbose. (It's very difficult to follow a "simple" program across 4 or 5 pages.) The "analysis" section breaks the author's own rule by attempting to tell what a line of code does, rather than why. The author also frequently drops in statements that have not been explained yet, then passes over them in the analysis.
Fourth, there are frequent typos in this book. Often the typos are merely extra spaces (for example between two words in a variable name, like my Age, which makes me think of Perl 5's keyword "my" for modifying scope) but this is enough to confuse both the reader and a compiler. Perhaps these errors were introduced by the publishing application, but they clearly should have been caught by an editor.
Finally, there are no exercises in this book! The first rule of teaching a programming course (which I've done) is that people only retain information through practice. Where is the practice in this book???
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (4th Edition) by Jesse Liberty ISBN: 067232072X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours by Greg Perry ISBN: 0672323079 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 10 Minutes (2nd Edition) by Jesse Liberty, Mark Cashman ISBN: 0672324253 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 23 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours (3rd Edition) by Rogers Cadenhead ISBN: 0672324601 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself HTML & XHTML in 24 Hours, Sixth Edition by Dick Oliver, Michael Morrison ISBN: 0672325209 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 19 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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