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- From: Jesse Liberty <jl@staff.ichange.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Any Good Books on C++
- Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 14:24:30 -0500
- Organization: AT&T
- Message-ID: <313B436E.664B@staff.ichange.com>
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- Stew Stryker wrote:
-
- > I worked through "Teach Yourself C++ Programming in 21 Days" by Jesse
- > Liberty, and found it pretty good.
-
- Thanks and thanks for the kind words. However...
- - Typos. Not bad in the beginning, but they seemed to get worse as the
- > book went on. I had to re-read a section about 5 times before I became
- > convinced that there was a major typo in the code examples, rather than
- > that I was just stupid, stupid, stupid!
-
- The first printing was plagued with typos and production errors, nearly all of which are fixed in the subsequent printings.
-
- >
- > I sent email to the author, but was never graced with a reply.
-
- Arg. My mail is not being forwarded from Ziff, but I do get mail at jl@staff.ichange.com and almost always reply within a
- day. Sorry your mail was lost; I'd be happy to help in any way I can.
-
- >
- > - Example code is available on floppy, but only for an additional $20 to
- > the author. Since the book as $30 in the first place, I think it should
- > have included the floppy. On the other hand, I think you learn some by
- > typing in the code yourself.
-
- I agree about typing it in, but it is now available free on Compuserve and via ftp from
- ftp://ftp.mcp.com/pub/sams/books/TYCPP21/
-
- Thanks again! By the way, you may be interested in the sequal, Teach Yourself MORE C++ In 21 Days, now in bookstores. :-)
-