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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 5th Edition edition (11 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0764568523
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764568527
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very good book, 18 Sep 2004
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In the past if have bought a few of the 'For Dummies' books and each time they have been great. My first one was 'PHP & MySQL' which taught me the basics of web development in a very short time. When I wanted to increase my knowledge base I came back to the 'For Dummies' series.
Again they have not disappointed me. This book starts from the most basic things about variables and how to output text to the screen and moves onto the more complicated areas of 'Object Orientation'. The thing which I found great about this book was it came with a C++ complier. Since this was the first time for me into this area I had no clue where to start, but this book guided me through everything while explaining what I was doing on the way.
It does not go into Windows programming, which is a good thing I believe since you have to get the hang of C++ before moving on. On the CD it has all the example pieces of code which save you typing them if you're of the lazy type.
Final mark for yet another great book is 5/5. I would advice any of you who want to know C++ and don't know where to start to get this book.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars OK, but not for beginners, 9 Feb 2008
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I bought this book a while ago, along with another: "C++: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition: A Beginner's Guide" by Herbert Schildt. I had a much better experience with the other than with this book. This one dives right in to complex concepts, that a real beginner would never understand, and does not explain the concepts it covers in any way that lends itself to giving a real understanding. It's also extremely Microsoft Windows centric, using Windows only features from the very start and continuing throughout, all fine an well as long as you only ever want to program on and only for Windows, but if that's not the case it becomes quickly annoying.
There are better books out there, especially for real beginners.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good, 4 Sep 2004
This book is excellant for the beginner (like myself). The general format of the book is firstly the author introduces a new concept. He normally gives a real world metaphor and then also some code. He always explains what each bit of this code means, and why it is there, so you will never be confused.
He also gives example programs which use all you have learnt up to that point.
I would very highly recommend this book to anybody who wants to learn C++.
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