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Title: Excellent introduction to C++
Review: This is an excellent book for both C programmers making the transition to C++ and for beginning C++ programmers who don't feel that they have had a proper introduction to some of the more complex features of the C++ language. If you are not familiar with OOP, this book provides an excellent introduction. Satir and Brown present in this book the features of C++ that are absolutely essential to know if one is to understand the language: classes, encapsulation, composition, inheritence, constructors/destructors, references, and polymorphism. The information in this book is organized very well. The code snippits are short, to-the-point, and easy to understand. Also, like all O'Reilly books, the typography is beautiful and clean. The only important areas of the core language left out of this book (which I feel should have been included in the core language) were in-depth discussions of the "static" and "const" keywords.
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