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Title: Poor writing, poor explanations, poor value
Review: The author includes many topics without explaining them long before they are needed. Her mentality seems to be "I'll give you every term in C++ then several chapters later I'll get around to telling you what each of these means and does." That type of writing will confuse anyone who does not already have a solid foundation of C++. This book has about the same amount of organization as the stories my 98 year old senile great grandfather tells about the martians fighting in World War I.I read Oleg Yaroshenko's The Beginner's Guide to C++ before using this book for a class (luckily, otherwise I don't know how I would have passed it). I liked it very much. It explains everything in simple terms, unlike this one. (It also costs about half as much.)The labs in each chapter are terrible as well. Most are completly useless. I can't think of a single one that was an interesting problem that taught you something.
