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Title: Standard C++ Bible by Al Stevens, Clayton Walnum ISBN: 0-7645-4654-6 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best C++ Book I own
Comment: I have 3 or 4 other C / C++ books on my shelf next to this one. I might as well throw them away (except for K&R - you HAVE to own that, but alas that's the OLD days of C).
Through this book I finally understood STL - Standard Template Library (which thankfully is gone in C#). It covers all the important topics for any C++ programmer - inheritance, overloading, standard libraries (such as iostreams), etc.
You won't get a lot (any) platform dependent stuff like GUIs.
However, I wish my college prof's had used this as the intro to C++ programming text book. Granted, there are not any exercises at the ends of chapters, but any prof worth his paycheck can make those up easily enough.
Get this as your introduction to C++, or just your reference for dealing with pesky STL.
Rating: 2
Summary: Incomplete and filled with errors
Comment: I didn't know C++ last week. I went to the local retailer and bought this book because it proclaimed itself to be the complete reference-it isn't. I see now that the books I probably want are those by Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++. Especially his Annotated Standards Document. I paid $ for the download of the standard (ISO/IEC 14882 from ansi.org); it was a good deal. I started comparing this "Bible" book with the standard and making notes of errors and ommissions, but there were just too many. Stevens didn't even get the operators right (XOR). He left out the grammer for specifying wide constants. He hardly touched on the USING statement. He left out major string functions. etc.
The only thing this book has going for it is that it was obviously a more complete reference than any other C++ book in the store. If you want the real C++ Bible, download the ANSI Standard.
Rating: 5
Summary: Advanced People
Comment: All Bible books are for intermediate and above readers who have a solid grasp on computers and their hardware. Bible books have always dominated all books in the computer scene no matter what. Therefore, this book is the best of all C++ books. You won't regret buying this book, I guarantee it. It has exammple programs for every lesson and reminds you of previous concepts so you don't become confused and skim back to the earlier chapters, no wonder it's so thick. I'm an advanced web designer and a beginner in C++ and I know which books are worth buying. Trust me on this........buy this one for C++ scripting. It will expand your wisdom and knowledge of C++ concepts.
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Title: Teach Yourself C++, Seventh Edition by Al Stevens ISBN: 0764526448 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Visual Basic® 6 Bible by Eric A. Smith, Valor Whisler, Hank Marquis ISBN: 0764532278 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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