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Review title: Bad Choice for a Teach Yourself Book.
Product review: The author states that this book is intended for beginning to intermediate pc users, but I found this is woefully mistargeted. I have been reading the book and am shocked at how hastily and unsatisfiably new topics are introducted. For example, the topic of pointers is thrown at the reader without even a discussion of what * or & means. The whole slew of pointer syntax possibilities is laid out in front of you, but without a description of why and how each statement does what it does.Intermediate "programmers" - not "pc users" as the author claims - would probably not get lost in this book, but even then a great deal of 'how & why' is missing.Summary - there are much better introductory C++ books out there.
