I found a really good c++ book at the uni booksale recently (Picked it up for $20) It is much more expensive at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/186100012X/104-6266574-2533512? v=glance
The book is called "Ivor Horton's Beginning C++ : The Complete Language ANSI/ISO Compliant One of the best things about this book is that it talks about ANSI C++ and does not require tools like visual c++ to do the examples. The Author has also written another book for visual c++. Quoting Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > >> Dear Christopher, > >> Thank you for your extensive reply. Does RUTE > >>stand for something else; > > > > Root User's Tutorial and Exposition. > > I always thought it was Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition, following > the recursive acronym tradition (GNU etc.) > > > A play on the homophonic nature of 'root' and 'rute' as well as being > a > > recursive acronym. Mad Unix geekery unleashed. > > > > > >>I want to know more about this book and where I'm > >>more likely able to obtain a copy. I don't mind a used edition and I > live > >>near Christchurch. > > > > > > Tech books, Whitcoulls. -- Unlikely possibilities. > > amazon.com -- Certainty. > > > http://www.amazon. com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130333514/qid=1086733573/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_x gl14/104-3810111-6221559?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 > > Mail system will probably mangle the above line, just go to amazon.com > and put > > RUTE Sheer > > into the search box. > > Note the reviews. They are all pertinent. In particular the one which > reminds > > us that RUTE is now quite old, ~5 years. The content is almost all > timeless, > > but there are some things which are now commonplace and not mentioned. > e.g. > > there is nothing about broadband, and a number of now ancient > techniques are > > discussed quite extensively, e.g. uucp, uucico, etc. > > > > > >> Do you have opinions on C++ books with regard to the efficiency with > >>which one can self tutor. > > > > No, I haven't any opinions one way or another about C++ books. > > C++ is one of the last languages I would recommend to somebody trying to > > teach themselves programming. > > > I'd suggest starting out with an interpretive language. > > RUBY is my suggestion, The book I mentioned is both pretty good and > available > > on the WWW. Also the mail-list is really helpful, and the interface to > the > > FOX windowing system is excellent. > > Ruby tends to be one of those languages that people agree how nice it is > > but nobody really uses it[1]. Python, on the other hand, is also very > nice, is used much more extensively, and has far more documentation and > > tutorials. Try http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ for a reasonable > introduction to programming in python. > > >>If you do, I'd like to know them. Better books > >>will probably be, for my purposes, ones that were texts at university > level > >>as the assumption is that only those that are lucid and to the point > will > >>be prescribed by lecturers. > > > > um :-) dangerous assumption, imho the number of computer texts which > are > > "lucid and to the point" can be counted on the fingers of one hand. > > Overstated, but by and large true. > > The UoC computer science course teaching C used an excellent textbook > (At least, it did when I was teaching it) which is perhaps the best C > textbook in existence (No, not Kernighan and Ritchie) for learning C. I > > can't remember the author (King?) > > Cheers, > Carl. > > [1] Sourceforge states: Ruby(298 projects), Python(3320 projects) > >
