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- From: Dick Menninger <Dick.Menninger@DaytonOH.ATTGIS.COM>
- Subject: Re: books
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- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 23:51:07 GMT
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- > ==========Herb Peters, 1/7/96==========
-
- > Can anyone name some good books that can assist me with
- > understanding the
- > syntax of C++. I find the reference books I have too concise.
- > Terse little
- > explanations about dereferencing pointers etc may be great for
- > the initiated
- > but I need some something a little more verbose. I would prefer
- > something that
- > has lots of sample code that is explained in depth and not too
- > concisely. I
- > have done a lot of programming in COBOL, some in assembler,
- > quite a bit of
- > hobby stuff in C.
-
- > Something that tackles C++ in the same manner that
-
- > Robert J. Traister's book Mastering C Pointers explains that
- > subject would be
- > ideal.
-
- > Any assistance would be appreciated.
-
- I don't know the above book.
- From your discussion I could not tell exactly
- what your real problem areas are. I can easily
- think of several candidates. The books you
- read used too complicated example code for
- the points they were making. You have not
- developed a good code reading skill for C-like
- languages.
-
- In any case, the hard part of C++ is not so
- much the syntax, but the thinking process
- needed to wrap your head around approaching
- programming the OO way. If you are experienced
- only in procedural programming thought applied
- only in an unstructured, monolithic style, then
- C++ will be a tough go. However, if you found
- picking up message based paradigms of windowing
- environment easy or found the shift/reduce
- organization of attaching language semantics
- when compiling easy to comprehend, then
- OO thinking will be easy for you.
-
- I think you want something that plays on
- your C knowledge and concentrates on
- evolving your thinking with short examples.
- This get you to C++ rather slowly, but that
- sounds like what you want. Bruce Eckel's
- "Thinking in C++" is such a book and updated
- code is available. Once you get this under
- you belt, pick up headier books that will
- stretch your code reading ability, which
- is an important skill. In addition, there
- are a few really good books that are
- almost at the level of wise C++ sayings
- explained. Scott Meyer's "Effective C++"
- is such a book and he is far along with a sequel.
- His books would help you wrap your head
- around C++ in digestible chunks after
- you know some of it.
-
- Good Luck!
-
-
-
- Good Day
- Dick
- Dick.Menninger@DaytonOH.ATTGIS.COM
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