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- From: bsayer@fe3.rust.net (Ben Sayer)
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- Subject: Re: Crappy or what? Oualline's C++ book--NOT!
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 02:47:33 GMT
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- tangent@cyberport.com (Warren Young) wrote:
-
- >krawchuk@ensu.ucalgary.ca (Mike Krawchuk) wrote:
- >
- >>An instructor in our department asked me to verify some suspicions he
- >>had about a book he was considering using as a text - Practical C++
- >>Programming, by Steve Oualline, published by O'Reilly & Associates Inc.
- >
- >Report the problems to them. ORA is very good about fixing errors in
- >new printings -- they're more like software than books that way. Just
- >looking on the verso of _Using C on the UNIX System_ (the closest ORA
- >book at hand) I see four printing updates for "minor corrections" even
- >though the book is still technically a first edition. _The Whole
- >Internet User's Guide and Catalog_ had five printing updates before
- >its second edition.
-
- Read the preface, page xvi, second chapter, wherein it is written:
- "Many programming examples are used throughout this book. Most of them
- contain deliberate errors." It is Mr. Oualline's opinion that the best
- way for one to learn is to find and fix ther errors rather than simply
- typing in examples.
-
- -- Ben Sayer
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