If you are new to C++ programming, C++ Primer Plus, Fifth Edition is a friendly and easy-to-use self-study guide. You will cover the latest and most useful language enhancements, the Standard Template Library and ways to streamline object-oriented programming with C++. This guide also illustrates how to handle input and output, make programs perform repetitive tasks, manipulate data, hide information, use functions and build flexible, easily modifiable programs. With the help of this book, you will:
Learn C++ programming from the ground up.
Learn through real-world, hands-on examples.
Experiment with concepts, including classes, inheritance, templates and exceptions.
Reinforce knowledge gained through end-of-chapter review questions and practice programming exercises.
C++ Primer Plus, Fifth Edition makes learning and using important object-oriented programming concepts understandable. Choose this classic to learn the fundamentals and more of C++ programming.
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Rating: - THE book for learning C++
I learned more in this book, and more in depth, in a chapter then I have in any other resource for C++.(Don't worry, I have read much more then just a chapter.) Prata will cover everything from how large a data type is in memory to the most advanced topics like inheritance, and all very well explained! I highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to learn C++.
Rating: - Great for beginners and ironically teachers of C and C++
I bought this book because I first learned how to program using 'The Waite Group's BASIC Programming Primer' when I was 13 and figured this would bring things full circle. Although by a different author, I hoped the strong legacy left by TWGBPP would compel this volume to find a similar style and purpose. To a high degree it did just that.
In what may be both a word of caution to old hackers and encouragement to beginners, this book is very thorough in what it does cover. The five W's ... Read More
Rating: - not exactly a poor tutorial
but not exactly a good one either. i have just completed chapter four, ~70 pages in length, covering structures, enumerators, arrays, and pointers, among other topics.
there are only 9 exercises for this material. 9!
deitel and deitel, although not without its own numerous demerits (that some material is poorly explained being among the worst), would, for this quantity of material have 25 exercises, some of them difficult, but many of them interesting.
Rating: - C++ Primer Plus (5th Edition)
This book teaches you C++ from the ground up. If you want to learn C++, get the latest edition of this book, whatever it may be (it may be this book at the moment.)
Rating: - A Lifesaver
My son's a grad student in Digital Production Arts (DPA) at Clemson University and has a BFA in Fine Arts. Because the DPA program is by nature computer programming-intensive, he has to take several prerequisite programming courses. I bought him the C Primer when he was struggling with that course and it made a huge difference. So I bought him the C++ Primer Plus because it was by the same author. For those for whom computer programming does not come naturally, these books by Stephen Prata are a lifesaver. ... Read More
- THE book for learning C++
- Great for beginners and ironically teachers of C and C++
