Title: Dissapointing...
Review: This book was my first book on learning C++. After reading several other books on C++, I can honestly say that this book was dissapointing at best. In a beginner's eyes, it is easy to imagine how this book might seem handy. It is informative and helpful on elementary topics, and also was helpful in the respect that I had no idea where to get a compiler or how to use it. However, once the book delves into more advanced topics, it becomes apparent that1.) the author never bothered to debug and test his programs and2.) that the author is inadequate at explanations.If you have plenty of money to burn, buy this book. Otherwise, try to get a book that doesn't have some sort of false "in a weekend!" or "in 21 days" or "for idiots!" promise. Learning to program takes hard work and perseverance, and those kind of books simply aren't cut out for teaching programming (not in the timeframe they promise, at least.).
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