Average Customer Review: 
| Great to take you to the next level | |
This is a great book for a student who has completed a course in Data Structures. Warning... do not even attempt to open the book if you are not familiar with Data Structures. One might attempt to read this book without first learning the basics of C++. I must say that I am glad that I was familiar with C++. The book is complcated and does go very in-depth. But if you meet the prerequisites... it is excelent! I read it about a year ago and am now going through and reading it again. I must say, it is just as great the second time.
| C++ and Object Oriented programming | |
I bought this book trusting in the previous reviews and the table of contents. I must say, that I'm very pleased with what I got. Wang starts of with 2 primers (the first 2 chapters: the first on C++, the second on OO), which will get you started and going, and then continues with going moore deeply into the world of C++. OO techniques are discussed more deeply in later parts of the book, but most examples along the book are in a natural way based on classes.I have examined many books about C++, and this is my personal favourite from now on. The good thing about this book is, that it is only about 550 pages (I hate those 1000 page manuals you know you will never be able to finnish), but covers all the modern koncepts like namespaces, exceptions, and of course OO, in a clear way. I would have prefered this book hard-cover, and with few more pictures and diagramms (and perhaps the OO diagrams could have used a notation that would be more similiar to UML). Also the part on STL is a bit thin, but the most used libaries, like the vector are discussed. But compared to dozens of other books out there, I am very happy to own this one.
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