C++ from the Beginning

Skansholm's book is concise and pragmatic. I have read both of his work on C++ and Java and it trully a must for beginners. The book is very good explaned and all programs can be run from PCs and UNIX machines. There are tons of similiar books on the market but Skansholm's work excel in both interesting examples and academically sound.

I have bought many books on C++ for college courses, but this one is much easier to learn from. It gives good examples, and builds on these pieces of information to give the user a good understanding. The only suggestion would be to have a book of the exercise answers available to purchase. The course instructor is using this book for background info, and not making assignments from it, so the answers to the exercises would be helpful to my learning effort.

The type of the teaching for this book is all build-up upon the examples and it doesn't refer to the C knowledge of the reader,so even if you don't know anything about C,this book can take you to the medium level.Good starting book.

This book does deserve its name for sure, since it can be read by any beginner, but also goes well further than a lot of other books on the subject. Most of the common advanced topics - (true) polymorphism, templates, and even some often-used structures - are covered in details enough to allow the reader to understand and efficiently use them. All along the text, the examples are longer enough to be useful, and shorter enough to stay what they are meant to be: examples... Though I would not consider this book as The reference, I would recommend it to any person wishing to gain serious confidence in object-oriented programmation in C++.