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- From: jobell@bnr.ca (Bret Bieghler)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Any Good Books on C++
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 13:38:03 GMT
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
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- In article <4h0gta$p1b@news4.digex.net>, Ell <ell@access4.digex.net> wrote:
- >Nararhari Laksbminarayana (narahari@cinternet.net) wrote:
- >: Hi,
- >: I just started with C++. I am a bit familiar but I need to get more info.
- >: Any good books on C++ side, not too much OOD should be involved. Should deal
- >: with Container Classes, Templates, Streams, operator overloading. etc.,
- >:
- >: More pictures, good and intersting explanations.... Any body has any ideas ?
- >
- >I've always liked the compiler manuals from Borland and Microsoft. It's
- >highly possible the Symantec, Watcom, and Mix C manuals will do just as
- >well.
- >
- >Elliott
-
- Compiler manuals? yuckkkkkkkkkkk....
-
- My favorite is "Thinking in C++" by Bruce Eckel (ISBN 0-13-917709-4).
- It assumes you know C to some degree.
-
- What is really good about this book, imho, is that it starts you out
- by showing you an example of simple C library. It points out the
- deficiencies of the C approach (passing pointers to structs in function
- calls), etc., and then migrates you to the C++ approach (encapsulation,
- implementation hiding, etc.) It also has a good discussion of the
- role of the constructor, the destructor, the copy constructor, etc.
- The only place it lacks, imho, is the explanation of operator overloading.
- I didn't "get it" the first time through like I did with everything
- else.
-
- Joe
- jobell@nortel.com
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