Addison-Wesley's Review for the Computer Science AP Exam in C++

The book was concise and very good at pointing out details that appeared on the AP test. The practice tests are useful if you look back in the book to learn why you got certain problems wrong.

I used this book and C++ for You++ solely to prepare for the AP exam. Not ever having taken a computer science course, it was comforting and helpful to have sample questions and exams, not to mention a great topical outline with which to prepare. It is, however, an review book, and not an instructional text.

This book did somewhat help me in reviewing for the exam with its brief review of certain topics covered on the actual AP exam in C++. A bit of advise would be to know everything there is to know about apmatrix, apvector, apstring, structs, and especially the case study from the College Board. The 1999 exam was fairly difficult if you were not strong in the above areas. Overall, this book by Horwitz is helpful in preparing for the exam alone with it's practice tests. If you want more in depth review for the exam, you should also look into the new study guide published by REA in C++.

I'm a High School student taking APCS and this book is a real help in studing for the test which is coming up. The practice tests are excellent and since the author was the chair of the committee that wrote the exam for apcs test in c++, you know that the questions found in the practice tests are going to be similar to the ones on the real test.

This book helped in teaching C++, but should be used only if preparing for the AP computer science test, if you want to learn C++ definetly look elsewhere for this book requires at least minimal knowledge of general programming.