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Title: C/C ++ Annotated Archives (Annotated Archives S.) by Art Friedman, Lars Klander, Mark Michaelis, Herb Schildt ISBN: 0-07-882504-0 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 13 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (6 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting collection of code snippets
Comment: I'm definitely in the minority here. I love these kinds of books. I find them a refreshing change from the continual stream of beginner/introductory C/C++ books that cover the same information over and over again ("hello world"). This book covers a lot of things that don't fall within the neat confines of the standard C++ primer, especially if you consider the Visual C++ genre.

This book covers a lot of ground, much of it is in the form of annotated source code: sorting, linked lists, b-trees, performing financial calculations, statistical applications, and implementing language interpreters in C++.

There are relatively few C++ classes in the source code. The bulk of the code is straight out C coding, to which C++ purist may object.

Although it bills itself as compiler independent, the chapters on Internet programming and fractal graphics are pretty much Visual C++ all the way.

Rating: 2
Summary: It's an Ok introduction
Comment: I agree with the majority of reviews, this book isn't as good as it sounds. Haven't tried using the code, but thought it was in a poor object oriented style, and doesn't lend itself to reuse straight off the CD.

A more detailed review an overview of the books chapters can be found at www.tarsiersoft.com/BR/cppaa-en.htm

Rating: 1
Summary: trivial code, plenty of mistakes, no way to get correct code
Comment: there are many mistakes in this code, most of which is trivial anyway. I contacted the person, at the email address provided on this book, got a response of acknowledgement but never got any corrected code, or instructions on how to get it through ftp etc. I'll be careful not to get burned by these authors again.