On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Bryan Scaringe wrote:

-Here are some books to avoid:
-     C: The Complete Reference, by Herbert Schlidt
-       This is from an old message I received on linux-c-programming:
-       This guy Schildt is /famous/ for his verrrry bad, 
-       amateurish code.  This example is typical. Use Deja-News
-       and go through comp.lang.c for a few hundred choice 
-       flames of his books. The kindest discription of Schildt is
-        "inexcusably and inexplicably sloppy."

that's a thick paperback with a reddish cover isn't it? there's one in our
library with "VERY POORLY WRITTEN, DO NOT USE" scribbled inside the cover.

-     C++ By Example:
-       This was my first C++ Book.  It is FILLED with typos,
-       and the code examples are filled with logic errors.

sure i've seen this too, it's worrying when you find just _one_ error in
some code (cos how many more are there?)

whatever book you get make sure it has readable fonts for program code. I.E

0 and O look DIFFERENT and
1 and I look DIFFERENT

(i spent hours typing in a damn pascal program only to find i'd typed 'i'
 instead of 1, the compiler didn't pick the error up because there was
 also a variable called 'i'!)


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