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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Crappy or what? Oualline's C++ book
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 15:37:15 GMT
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Scott
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