C++ Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design

This book is very good for the beginning programmer. It explains things very slowly with good examples that build on previous chapter material. The index is excellent for finding a specific topic.

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Whenever I go to learn a new language, I always look to see whether there is a book from Thompson's, 'From Problem Analysis to Program Design' series available on that language. This style of textbook always seems to get it right when it comes to academic learning. After trying a couple of C++ texts, I found that with this particular book, I could understand those niggly bits of the language that can be very hard to explain/learn. This book has brought me much further than I was able to go with other texts. Clear explanations and useful case studies make for the best way to learn a language. Especially the case studies, as they show you how you can use what you have learnt constructively. My advice: learn C++ with this book, and use C++ Primer Plus (5th Edition) as a reference companion.

This book presents C++ programming in a fairly rigorous fashion. Many of the examples are somewhat long, however, this is what happens when you need to move beyond simple stuff like finding the maximum number in an array, counting a series of numbers with a loop, printing a triangle of asterisks, and so on. Such problems are examined in this book but the author doesn't stop there. This is one of the few books that actually demonstrates the kind of programming skills that the "real world" demands.

I disagree with the reviewer who said that this book is for retards. I am not a retard. I am a certified developer. But when I needed to create a string as a linked list for a college project, the book that my college had us read was too "this is how you create an architectural plan", but nothing about how to lay bricks. I went thru more than half a dozen books on data structures, and most had this disconnect between much discussion on how to "create an ADT" and how you actually write code. They did not have a single complete example! I am very busy, but the review I read is just unfair, so I decided to spend my time writing this review. It is clear that the book is written by an excellent educator who understands how people learn. If you ever taught somebody how to do something, you definitely wondered sometimes how many times you have to repeat the same thing... But this is how we learn -- thru repetition. Repetitio est mater studiorum. If you are a beginner, this book is for you.