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- From: maclenna@ozone.uiowa.edu (Mark MacLennan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Crappy or what? Oualline's C++ book
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 06:36:37 GMT
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- In article <4g28bb$r0q@redstone.interpath.net> softbase@mercury.interpath.net
- (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems) writes:
- >Mike Krawchuk (krawchuk@ensu.ucalgary.ca) 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.
- >
- >I was very disappointed in this book. The text is almost word-for-word
- >identical to his C book, with a few token C++ things thrown in.
- >I wouldn't recommend it as a textbook.
- >
- >Scott
-
- Unfortunately, I completely agree that this book is a disappointment
- and I would not generally recommend it. This is one of the few
- ORA books that I have been disappointed with and I have over a
- dozen of their other books. Not that "Practical C++" is a bad book,
- it just isn't a particularly good C++ book as compared with many
- other on the market. The book seems to be trying to appeal to too
- many different audiences from "people with no previous programming
- experience" to "those who already know C++ and want to improve their
- programming style and reliability". In my opinion, C++ is simply
- too complex a language (e.g. compared with C) to cover all these
- bases well in one book. A number of important aspects of C++ simply
- seem to be missing from this particular book. I also have mixed
- feelings about some of the coding style recommendations made in
- the book.
-
- - MARK
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