Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133 EAN: 9780130622211 ISBN: 0130622214 Label: Prentice Hall Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1568 Publication Date: December 14, 2001 Publisher: Prentice Hall Sales Rank: 402715 Studio: Prentice Hall
Product DescriptionCompletely updated to reflect the recent changes in ANSI Standard C++. Contains hundreds of exercises, and thousands of lines of working code with valuable insights into good programming practices. Softcover.
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Rating: - Deffinitely a beginner book
This book is solidly aimed at beginners. It almost as if it's written for a reasonably intelligent person who somehow hasn't had much computer experience. These "How to Program" books in their previous editions for C and C++ were always held up as a sort of gold standard for learning a programming language. That is not the case with this C# edition.
The book is verbose to a fault. I've read several intro C# books now, and this is easily the worst one. For all it's pages, How to Program, ... Read More
Rating: - Wretched
The text and examples in this book are too bogged-down in Visual Studio-isms for it to be a good introductory programming text, but the material is also too basic for experienced programmers.
The layout is terrible. Practically every third word is bolded, and the prose is interrupted by frequent "asides" that are inserted in the middle of paragraphs and stretch across entire pages. I found one page with *eight* asides on it! If the information was vital enough to be included, it should be ... Read More
Rating: - Great coursebook, but heavy for the beginner
Like a few others said, this book is very verbose at 1500 pages, but it's overkill for most people. I like it because it's got lots of coverage on many areas, but the examples are too big and too many and take from showing the meaty theory around each chapters objectives. I still give it 4 stars because others who have looked it over told me it's not too bad
Rating: - A huge over written mass of book
I've been reading technical books for 25 years and this book was recommended to me by someone else - what a let down. First, way too verbose on every subject. I have never seen a book with so much miscellaneous and distracting stuff crammed into one page. The book is 1500 pages of which half don't need to be there. This might work in a class room, but a huge mistake for individual learning. They call there code samples live code, but I call it filling the pages. It's better to explain concepts with simple ... Read More
Rating: - Very confusing and technical
This book may have some examples that work but the whole context is utterly confusing. I have it because it's what I'm using for my OOP programming class and I wish they didn't use it! It gets me so frustrated just going through it that I was asking the teacher if I should drop programming altogether. In reading another post, I see that a University teacher wrote that they didn't like this book as the students start blaming themselves for not understanding the concepts when it's really the books fault. I was ... Read More
- Deffinitely a beginner book
- Wretched
- Great coursebook, but heavy for the beginner
