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Title: The Waite Group's C++ How-To (How-To Series) by Jan Walter, Jan Walter, Scott Roberts, Waite Group, Jane Walter ISBN: 1-57169-159-6 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Easy Reading
Comment: The format of this book can best describe as "ask a question and give an answer". Every topics start off with a question, follow by a small piece of code, and then an explaination of what each line of code does. This direct approach makes the book quicker to read, and in some way, it kind of goes without saying, "cut the chase and get to the point!".

The contents touch base with many juicy topics. It has a brief introduction to the Standard Libraries such as String and Vector, enough to tease you in getting a full book on STD LIB (I did). It also does a decent job in covering inheritance and virtual class inheritance. Type casting and namespace usage is also covered. Polymorphism is covered but kind of weak.

Rating: 4
Summary: It worths your money.
Comment: I bought this book at a half-price book store. Usually I don't like any books in the "How-To" series, because they are written in a fix format, I mean for every issue or problem -- no metter you like or not. It just seems to add some letters to assemble a book! I feel it likt that there is little bit meat in a big wok of water soup! But this book is good, after I read a couple of chapters. It worths what it costs me -- half price!

Rating: 4
Summary: Very good book. Very good approach.
Comment: First, I like the approach of this book. The "How could I do ... ?" is good for refresh your memory. Since sometime you might forget, or become unsure about how something can be done.

Despite what it said in the back cover, I think that, this book is suitable for the someone who is about to become an intermediate C++ programmer (the advanced-beginner, or something like that). Why? Because when I was one, I always get confused about "How could I do ", or "How should I involve ", and this book provided almost all answer to those questions I used to have. And even now, it still worth my time reading it.

The code examples are very easy to understand. However, I found that each author's programming style are quite different. This is fine for someone who already has his/her own style. But for someone who doesn't, this might lead to confusion, and bad programming style (mixed style) later on.

Also, one thing... I found that in (almnost?) all code, main() return void, which is not correct. According to the Standard, main() should return int for some reason, like for checking the termination of the program. I don't know about Visual C++, but in many compiler, you will get the warning message if your main() does not return int.

Overall, this is a very good book, and it deserve 4 stars from me. However, it still can become a much better book.

To the authors : How about "More C++ How-To" or "Advanced C++ : How-To" ?