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Title: Are you a crytographer????
Review: ... Then maybe YOU can make sense of this book. C++ has some different syntax, some of which is not explained in this book until after chapter 5 (& - the pass by refererence operator for example) -- meanwhile the author gives examples using this unique syntax for over one hundred pages. In addition, my fingers got sore from flipping through all the cross references (See my final comment) It seems to me a well written book would explain something and then build on that knowledge. Instead this book relies on cross referencing that can loose someone new to c++ in seconds flat. Do yourself a favor and find another book.( this is a significantly less irritating example of the silly references riddling this poorly written book.)
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