Title: Not worth the time or money
Product review: I was required to buy this book for a class. I was very disappointed by it from the very first chapter. The author throws up some really convoluted code, and then barely explains what he is doing. Rather than presenting a problem and suggesting how to use C++ to solve it, the code itself is presented as the problem to be solved ,as in, "try to figure out what I was thinking when I wrote these lines of code". Even the typical "Hello World" program was much more complicated than necessary, giving the impression that C++ I/O is more difficult than it really is. I ended up buying other books to complete the course, and would not recommend this book to anyone trying to learn object oriented program concepts.
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