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C++: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition: A Beginner's Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Herbert Schildt
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 14206
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 576
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0072232153
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
UPC: 783254043275
EAN: 9780072232158
ASIN: 0072232153
Publication Date: December 1, 2003
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very good inroduction to C++ May 18, 2008
Mr. Aladdin Alkindy (UK)
this is a very good book as an introduction to C++. The book provide you with codes that are suitble for both windows and linux. It has some explaination about G++ the C++ complier that often used in linux as well as the book gives some explaination about visual C++. If you are a total novice, this book takes it easy with novices. If you are an advanced programmer with any other language but C then this book is a very good start to C++ and to some extend C. Best to learn this book in linux, try to avoid Visual C++ because it is almost a new language created for the .net. With the dotnet microsft has put java, C++ in its pocket and now even javascript and more language has fallen into microsoft trap of cross platform application development. Java is going to be the worst injury from the .net once the .net travels to linux(advancement in the mono project) Java won't be used that often for one simple reason, All the .net language are almost the same and that include the similarties of deferent types of langauge for example Viusal C++ is more related to VB.net than the original C++ programming language even though VB.net and C++ totally different in syntax.
Generally speaking C++ is not a very good start for learning programming however the more advanced you become the more you relise the importance of C++ so cut it short and start with C++.
The good thing about this book is that it explains things step by step if you are a bignner then you will appreciate it. If you are an intermediate programmer with other languages such as C#, then this book will consalidate the programming elements that you need in any programming language. if you are an advanced programmer (sure you will know what to buy as an introduction to C++) This book will be helpful and depends on what you define helpful.
Satisfied February 5, 2008
A. Duffy (Ireland)
This is a great book, it brings you through the basics step by step and brings you on to more complicated stuff the more you progress throughout the book, i highly recommend people to buy this book and i can assure you if your dedicated in learning C++ this book will help you bigtime..
 Good for new programmers October 14, 2006
Damienn (Istanbul)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
It is the best choice for those who are beginner in programming. It assumes that you know nothing about programming.
But if you know C language or the basis of programming, you should try other books. Because it is a time waste for them. I regret a little for buying this book because I know C and it is like repeating same things in many pages of this book
Great much better than others` August 4, 2006
Mr. Benjamin Flowers (UK)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I love this book, its simply fantastic. I have tried another C++ Beginners book and i *thought* c++ was ridiculously hard and i would never acomplish it. ( sams teach yourself c++ in 21 days ) i mean i had read like 2 hundred pages of this book and it was still on the basics - i think i hadn't even reached the cin >> command !! this one however does move at an okay pace. Herb Shild really knows his stuff, sometimes however he explains it a little TOO thoughrouly and i end up having to re-read certain parts of the chapter again. There is a learning cve towards the end of this book though. it suddenly becomes a lot more comlicated once you hit the pointers, although im pretty sure this is because i had a little experience in the BASIC language, and nothing at all like pointers ever came up. I attempt to read 1 chapter in a go, although after i feel my brain has been fried in the latter parts of the book.
Good book, May 15, 2006
W. Dalmijn
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is a good book, it gives you a detailed explanation how the context of C++ works. Meaning it is a perfect book to grab and look up how the basic syntax of C++ is, it explains to you how to do OOP (Object Oriented Programming) and also how to make header files and why they are neccesary.
The problem with this book however is, and this is a general problem with most books. Is that it might explain to you HOW C++ works, it does not explain to you how to begin programming, it gives you the neccesary tools to build a house. Just not the manual explaining to you how to start building the house.Its very well written, and its a great reference guide. But for people who need to really need to program a C++ Application that does something in windows for example:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764571974/qid=1147692569/sr=8-7/ref=pd_ka_7/203-2806617-1806361
This is a good book that explains to you how to pogram in Windows with Visual Studio 2005, basically if you need to make an application a book like this gives you more of a graps what for posibilities C++ gives you.
In conclusion:
This book is well written, its a good reference guide and I use it extensivly when teaching my friends how to program, it gives easy examples to digest and understand the reasoning on why it works. But where it fails is teach the reader how to begin programming, which is a hard subject altogether and many books are written about it :) If you want the hard cold naked C++ code with no compiler attached: Get this book
If your boss wants a application that does Database communication and also has a nice interface use the book i referenced to :)
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