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- From: duchan@gort.canisius.edu (Alan Duchan)
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- Subject: Re: Books for a C++ class
- Date: 4 Apr 1996 00:55:47 GMT
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- Joseph Briatico (jbriatic@phoenixint.com) wrote:
- : I am teaching a course at a local community college and I am looking for a
- : new textbook.
-
- I'm hesitant to make a suggestion without knowing what previous courses
- and experience your students have had. However, here goes. One
- possibility is Gary Bronson's A First Book of C++ (West Publishing). I
- suggest it because it appears to move at a nice slow pace. It seems to
- be more procedural than OO, but maybe that's appropriate for students
- with no experience. Bronson is co-author of an earlier book on C that
- grew out of a book by his co-author that I believe was used internally at
- AT&T. Another quite different book is Decker and Hirshfield's "The
- Object Concept." This too claims to be for a first course, but it starts
- out with a relatively large object oriented program in the first
- chapter.
-
- Perhaps you could collect responses you get combined with your own
- opinions and make it all available to others. I and my colleagues would
- certainly appreciate reviews of introductory C++ texts.
-
- Alan Duchan
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