Teach Yourself C++

I must say that I get a kick out of the number of people who trash Herb Schildt. Even in newsgroups, there are quite a few who say nothing but trash about him.I own about 12 of his books, and I have NEVER seen an author cover as much as him. In the front of virtually off of his books, he includes his office phone number to call him if you have any questions, or to order the source, although you can download it from osbornes site.I have never, ever seen another author do that. Most of the time you have to write to their agent or something. Personally, I do not care how many people might dislike Schildt. He is strictly the reason I now use C and C++. I have tried Tom Swan who is an excredibly poor teacher (only own one of his books), Microsoft books (do we need to go there?), Bjarne Stroupstup who makes no sense to me, Robert LaFore who's book Object Oriented Programming did NOT compile, and I have the exact same compiler he used, and many others.Herb Schildt's Teach Yourself books do two things that I have never seen another author fully explore. After each chapter, and sub-chapter, he gives you exercises. If you can't figure it out, the full source code is included.He gives excellent teaching and plenty of examples. I figure it this way: if everybody else wants to trash him, go right ahead. If he is such a horrible author, why have his books sold over 2 million copies? Forget what others have to say, try his books for yourself and make YOUR OWN decision.I reference his books CONSTANTLY.One thing to remember, his Teach Yourself books don't show you how to write large scale applications, but rather, teach you the language, so when you pick up another book to write a large program, you will know what the syntax is.This book has it all. C++ I/O, to classes, private/public/protected members, operator and function overloading, inheritance, constructors and destructors, and much more! Very well done!Try it for yourself. You've got nothing to lose.Just remember that you need to have the desire to learn. The book will not teach itself to you.

The way this book is written, it'll have you up and running in no time. I used this book to great effect in a C++ course ( as a complement to Bjarne Stoustrup's book). Highly recommended for beginners!

This book is best book I ever read for C++. I have read tons of book and nothing is compaired to this one. Herber Schildt puts a great amout of time to explain everything in the chapters. The part I really like about this book is that, you have exercises that you can do to see if you understand the chapter. I think you are wasting your time reading my review, you should be buying the book right now.

This book is my favourite among all the books of C/C++ I ever got,the author is expert on what he is writing,I have read 6 chapters in one day,believe it or not,this was because it's so interesting,and even after I finished the course I kept reading it,now after 2 years of graduatuion it is there on my desk,I read from it very often,I advise everybody who wants to learn and enjoy C++ to go for this book (Excellent!!)

This is my fourth C++ book. Having taken the C++ course from a worthless professor and gone through two tormenting and dry C++ books, I was just about to give it up. Just into 2 chapters of Schildt's book, I've learned more about C++ and OOP than I did in all previous three books and the college course combined. Perhaps that's more reflective of how bad the previous three books were, but I am very happy with Schildt's approach. He allows you to learn by doing through tons of examples and exercises. The other three authors (who shall remain nameless at this point, but email me if you really want to know) stop at presenting mechanics of C++, which have yet to be standardized. Highly Recommended!