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- From: TIM O'BRIEN <tmo9d@virginia.edu>
- Subject: Good and Bad C++ Book List, please RESPOND
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- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 19:35:40 GMT
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- Below is the first result of my Best and Worst C++ book survey, please
- Mail me with more entries into the list, tell me what some of the worst
- C++ books are, and some of the best.
-
- Enjoy
-
- ***********************************************
- C++ Texts: The Best and the Worst *************
- ***********************************************
-
- This Document was produced in an informal survey on the newsgroups
- comp.lang.c++ and comp.lang.c++.moderated. It is an attempt to help
- beginners and experts alike to find reliable C++ texts.
-
- Some Favorites:
-
- "Effective C++" by Scott Meyers
- Multiple Vote Winner
-
- "Learning C++" by Eric Nagler
- It assumes the readers knows C *well* and proceeds quickly
- over 600 pages and covers the details very well.
-
- "Mastering C++" by Cay Horstmann
- Assumes knowledge of C or Pascal, C++ 2.1, basics of the
- language and of OO design
-
- Mark Nelson, "C++ Programmer's Guide to the Standard Template
- Library"
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- Coplien's: Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms
-
- Ellis and Stroustrup's Annotated Reference Manual
- Essential. Once you get over the screwy organization, it is
- actually quite useful.
-
- Meyer's Effect C++: 50 Specific Ways...
- Good pointers on design. Points out some less-than-obvious
- pitfalls.
-
- RogueWave's tools.h++: Not really a book--a manual and a bunch of
- well-written, portable C++ code. A great source for design
- ideas--particularly for the design of class interfaces.
-
- Practical C++ Programming by Steve Oualline
- O'Reilly & Associates is usually terse and compact, but
- this publisher's track record is great. No hype
-
- "Advanced C++" by James Coplien
- This is a great book. Inheritance hierarchies and Polymorphism.
- Information Hiding
-
-
- Worsts:
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- Mathematical Algorithms for Scientists and Engineers C/C++
- All the C++ code was hastily converted from C, there is
- really no text worth reading, all code.........
-
- "C++ Inside and Out" by Bruce Eckel
-
-
- Compiled by Tim O'Brien <tmo9d@virginia.edu>
-
- Thanks to all contributors:
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- Robert Hall <rhall@onramp.net>, "Steve E. Chapel" <schapel@cs.ucsb.edu>,
- Steve Willer <willer@carolian.com>, Margaret Ellis
- <ellis@allegra.att.com>, Mark Alan Peot <pesto@leland.stanford.edu>, Nick
- Tsivranidis <ntsivran@bach.fmrco.com>, "Saif A. Azam"
- <azam@cerc.wvu.edu>, "Annette S. Riffe" <asr@corona.mitre.org>, Arild
- Berg <dvg01026@everyday.no>, Ignatius <i-wong@bgu.edu>, Henry Barta
- <hbarta@interaccess.com>, Jason Schnitzer <jasons@parcplace.com>,
-