|  | Author: Stephen Prata
Publisher: Sams
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Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 26060
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Pages: 1224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.7
ISBN: 0672326973
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
UPC: 752063326978
EAN: 9780672326974
ASIN: 0672326973
Publication Date: November 25, 2004
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 Excellent book!! Makes learning C++ interesting and easy March 14, 2008
Mark Burrell (Toronto, Ontario)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are some really great C++ books out there but, in my opinion, this particular one deserves 10 stars. Do you want to learn to program in C++? Do you have little or no previous knowledge of the C++ language? Well then, I would highly recommend this book to you. It is very well written, has many relevant code examples, exercises and a wealth of thorough explanations to guide you through it all. The author does an excellent job with providing beginner friendly and thorough explanations. In addition to all this, the book is of excellent value for the money. I wish that I had known about this book much sooner! I struggled with a couple of other "catchy" C++ book titles out there that appeared promising. I was a bit reluctant to purchase this book at first so I checked out a lot of customer reviews. If I had only one book to recommend for beginners, and even those with previous knowledge in the C++ programming language, this book is indeed the ONE and ONLY. If I were to name just one of the many great attributes that stands out in this particular book, it would be the fact that the author takes no shortcuts or compromises in his excellent teaching techniques. Study time in this book is very productive from page to page and no information is redundant. The author re-emphasizes important subject information by including it, where applicable, in the comments following all the code examples, (a good strategy to help instill new structures of knowledge to long-term memory), which is something I have not seen consistently in the other C++ books that I have studied. It is evident that a great deal of resources have been invested in producing this book. If a newer edition comes out, I will be in line to purchase it without hesitation.If I was able to rank it higher than 5 stars, I most certainly would have. Many thanks to Stephen Prata and whoever else contributed to this fine C++ programming book. I am still, after quite some time now, enjoying it. Excellent work!
Large blue book, lots of words March 8, 2008
John Denver (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm using this large blue book to teach myself the language and so far I think it is a good resource. The author assumes that you have no prior knowledge of programming. It has lots of examples with good step by step documentation describing what the example program is doing. There are also tons of nerd-friendly jokes. The learning is a bit slow if you read straight through without skipping around, but that's because the author gives you details such as when to use a particular function as opposed to another, potential pitfalls you can encounter and the differing ways you can do the same task. In short, using this book will take you longer to learn the language than it would if you used a shorter book, but it will make you a more knowledgeable programmer.
Great Book to Learn C++ even with little Programming experience!!! February 27, 2008
C. Walker
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been learning as much as I can about computer languages the last 9-10 months or so. I didnt know anything about any language before then. Now I have learned HTML and CSS very well, learned some JavaScript, and some ColdFusion. But I wanted to get to the "Big Dogs" of programming as well as those scripting languages, so I bought this book. After reading the first 150 pages, I learned some things about programming that I had just been using because thats how the language worked. I didnt know WHY it worked, I just knew thats how it was done. But now while reading this book, I understand some of the concepts used in JavaScript and ColdFusion that I had been using just because thats what i saw. This author really explains things so that pretty much even beginning programmers(some experience never hurts but not necessary) could start out with C++. One of the best(if not the best) programming books Ive bought in the past year (and ive bought around 10-11 of 5 or 6 different languages).
Great introduction to C++ February 25, 2008
Renato Prata De Frasson (Iowa City, IA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Great book, I program in other languages (all event oriented languages) and had no previous experience with OOP, no experience with C++ and no other form of C and I still understand the content very well. It balances well examples and concepts and seems to be a good for future reference.
 NOT a book for first time programmers. February 24, 2008
the (Lexington, KY)
9 out of 23 found this review helpful
I'm taking my first c++ class this semester so I purchased c++ primer plus, based on the positive reviews here on amazon, so I could get a second perspective from the required text book.
I just finished the 5th chapter, over 1/4 of the programs in the book will not compile in OSX 10.5.2 w/ developer kit installed. The author will go on rants that are to complicated for the subject matter that he's trying to cover, then later say oh don't worry about that you'll learn about it in chapter 15.
After finishing this semester I hope that I can revisit this book, and enjoy it more. For now, it's to complicated for someone who's just starting out and has never used or taken a structured programming language before.
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