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Title: Bad book--not for beginners
Review: This is a very poor textbook. It does a very bad job of teaching C++, even though it claims to be for beginning students. The organization is totally inapropriate, unless you are already fluent in C. The book begins with advanced topics like functions, quickly jumps into classes, and then sprinkles basic concepts like integral variable types randomly throughout the text. If you are a beginner at C/C++, you will not get a good grounding in the fundamentals of C/C++ programming. This book will lead directly to confusion and frustration. One other problem for the beginner--the example code has numerous errors and often will not compile. Imagine how that makes a beginner feel!
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