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Title: Absolute C++ by Walter Savitch, Walter J. Savitch ISBN: 0-201-70927-9 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $86.67 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best C++ book to sufficiently explain the syntax
Comment: I have been out of college for 7 years now, and have been a programmer all that time. When I graduated, although I knew enough C++ "to be dangerous", I was uncomfortable with the language. With many years experience under by belt, I now understand why I (and many of my graduating classmates) were so confused and uncomfortable with C++ -- Syntax!
C++ is very flexible and powerful. I've been tought that. Only no one every showed me exactly why. Probably because in order to do powerful things in C++ requires a mastery of all the syntax. There are slightly different ways to overload functions and operators (both binary and uniary), and friend classes of multi-class inheritence etc etc. My professors in college did a good job of explaining the theory of Classes, Inheretence, Overloading, Templates and so on. However, when it came down to actually writting some code, I had now idea how to implement all these grand abstract theoretical ideas. Therefore as a result, I wrote long confusing C code using the C++ compiler to get around my lack of knowledge how to actualy write the syntax.
"Absolute C++" is the first C++ book I've read which does an excellent job of teaching you about syntax on the Nuts-and-Bolts aspects of implementation. (Especially overloading of functions and operators; different ways to invoke different constructors; the different ways you can invoke an overloaded assignment operator; doing all the above as an abstract base class; doing all the above as a template; how namespaces work.)
Learning about high-level theory of object-oriented programming is a great thing! But, there comes a time when you have to know how to actually express your idea in a programming language (i.e. syntax.) That's the part my professors weren't good at. And unfortunately, no one seems to think the syntax matters anymore. Perhaps that's why software is so bug-riden and inefficient these days, because there's so many programmers who simply don't know how to write good software taking advantage of all the complex syntactic features of a language. In fact, if you read customer reviews for ANY computer programming book here on Amazon, there's always a lot of people complaining about "not enough examples." I think what they really are trying to say is, "Okay I understand the theory, how do I program all of that?"
I just wish someone would write a C++ book entitled "Become a human compiler for the C++ language in 21 days" that focused solely on the language, and not general OO theory. I suppose I could read the BNF description of the language, but that seems more difficult.
The reason I'm so Gung-Ho about learning the syntax is due in part to this book "Absolute C++". I was one of a sea of engineers working for IBM last year, and our department took a refresher C++ course which this book was offered. The professor tought the language, and didn't talk at all about OO theory. Suddenly everything made sense! All that high-level theory in college started to come together and I "got it". He taught us what the compiler was doing as it interpreted various syntax statements. That practical low-level understanding strengthend my high-level general OO knowledge so much that I became a much better software engineer.
I wish all programming books would spend more time on the practical syntatic details. Not only does it make you a stronger programmer, but a better software designer as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you want to learn C++ this is it
Comment: This is the best book i've come across about C++ easy to follow and easy to understand i recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn C++ there's nothing better than this one out there believe me.
Rating: 2
Summary: meander, not consistent, overall not great
Comment: i bought C++ How to program(textbook for school) and Sam teach yourself C++ 21 day(after failed my c++ class) before this book. After reading reviews for this book, I decide to buy this book for the "Class, pointer and ADT" stuff that I didn't get from C++ How to program. After reading some chapters, i found the book is not really for the beginner. I need a book that explains concepts in a clear manner. Absolute C++ fails to achieve that. Now I really don't know what to do with my next class(Data Structure).
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Title: Practical Debugging in C++ by Ann R. Ford, Toby J. Teorey ISBN: 0130653942 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.80 |
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Title: Problem Solving with C++: The Object of Programming (4th Edition) by Walter Savitch, Walter J. Savitch, Savitchh ISBN: 0321113470 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 16 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $86.67 |
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Title: Principles of Modern Chemistry by David W. Oxtoby, H. Pat Gillis, Norman H. Nachtrie, Norman H. Nachtrieb, Jonathan Shui Rutland ISBN: 0030353734 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 02 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $134.95 |
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Title: Data Structures with C++ Using STL (2nd Edition) by William H. Ford, William R. Topp, William Ford, William Topp ISBN: 0130858501 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 17 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $92.00 |
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Title: Vector Calculus by Jerrold E. Marsden, Anthony J. Tromba ISBN: 0716749920 Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $115.05 |
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