I enjoyed TEACHING from Deitel "C++ (see) how to program" books. All examples were complete programs, and all in the book (and on-line/cd), so self contained. Harvey & Paul are good teachers, good authors; write their books for use in their own on-site corp training classes.
Bill@$dayjob Not speaking for firm Bill, typing with thumbs ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Small [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 11:12 AM To: Boston PM <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] C++ books Bill Ricker <[email protected]> writes: > the book that i taught from was C++ How To Program. > http://www.deitel.com/ > They have 5 C/C++ books now, plus Java, VB/#, Web, ... Did you like Deitel and Deitel or was it a compromise between the books you like best and what you thought a mix of students with different levels of dedication and enthusiasm would find comfortable reading? When I looked at their C one, it seemed to have a lot of, uh, extra words, to say it politely (granted I had absorbed the idea from friends that K&R was the one and only worthy C book by that time). It also looked more suited for a first programming course rather than for a practicing programmer -- i.e. more the equivalent of Stroustrup's Programming Principles and Practice Using C++ or perhaps Glassborrow's You Can Do It. I find it a bit suspicious too that they seem to just flip these things out $book=~ s/C/C++/g or $book =~ s/C/Java/g. Maybe that's not fair, not really having read them. > > C How to Program ,C ++ how to program, C++11 for Programmers, .Simply C++, > Small C++ – available on Safari. I missed the original question, but if OP (Greg?) can wait a bit the next edition of Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language is supposed to come out by June, revised for the new standard. It's a tricky time to buy a C++ book unless you don't care about C++11 (there's lots of neat stuff in there to care about: http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html#language), since many of the good ones haven't been updated yet or never will be. For instance, Accelerated C++ is often recommended but will it be updated for C++11? Andrew Koenig (my favourite writer on C++, though I never read Accelerated C++) was recommending his wife's (and others') book, C++ Primer 5th ed., which has been updated for C++11: http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/c-primer-5th-edition-part-1-how-to-revis/240003977 - Mike _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
