Rating:  - Overrated -- NOT
I would like to amend my first review of this book. I wrote it in haste and have found some redeeming qualities since then. Although I feel it doesn't explain as much as I would like since it touches on so many different topics, I find that it is very informative and worth purchasing.
Rating:  - Overrated
I have several books I use for programming reference and I have yet to find a practical use for this one. It seems more like the author is attempting to 'dazzle' the reader than teach the reader. When I *have* used the book for reference, I spent most of the time re-writing the example code so that it would compile and run. It is my least favorite reference book for programming in C++.
The book expresses simple concepts in a complicated manner rather than complicated concepts in a simple manner.
Rating:  - Great book.
This is the best book I have seen in the field of The C++ Programming Language! :-P
Rating: - absolutely perfect
well, some people rated this book 2 stars. they're sadly wrong! c++ is NOT a language for novice programmers, so the latter are not supposed to even read this book. ok, the book is a little wordy, but this is by no means a bad characteristic. the words are there for helping the reader figure out the concept. and yeah, a lot of concepts are a bit awkward and hard to understand in c++. nobody has magical powers to make c++ an easy language to learn. someone even stated that "if you learned C++ from this book, then you know no C++". that's such a joke!!! maybe that rater should just go back to kindergarten
Rating: - Brilliant. Even though I could get it for free, I bought it!
Well worth its price. I could not understand Stroustrup's book, "The C++ Programming Language", but Eckel broke things down for me quite well. After "Thinking in C++" and "Learn C++ in 21 days" by Jessie Liberty, I think I understand C++ pretty well, and I can actually read Stroustrup's tome with benefit.
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