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Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (5th Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself)

Format: Paperback
Author: Jesse Liberty
ReleaseDate: 20 December, 2004
Publisher: Sams
Rating:

It's in-your-face tech knoledge.
It's a good book. I found the information good, accurate, and intensely stuffed into the twenty one days.

Very Good For Learning The Basics
I would now recommend starting with C++ In 21 Days and then moving to the forementioned. Not sure about 21 days, but I started with C++ Primer Plus.

Complete in content...
For a beginner, this book can also make a good reference if all he wishes to read about is specific language related details. The book deals with C++ and related nuances exhaustively.

The authors have taken care to be elaborate, and have presented concepts such as pointers, constants, and streams lucidly - to name a few.

I would like to see a re-arrangement of content in the next version. For example: the chapter on OOAD comes too early - even before Inheritance (and Polymorphism) in C++ has been introduced. Similarly, templates are discussed in detail before macros have been introduced. Some exercises that are very lengthy can be broken into smaller /simpler ones.

My advise to a beginner would be to focus on the content he is able to grasp, and keep the rest for another reading. Yes, this is a book that can be read more than once as it deals with topics that are a beginner's level and beyond (which in my opinion is good).