C++ How to Program: Late Objects Version (How to Program (Deitel))

I rented this for a college class. This book is great, and has many online resources available. After having an understanding of Java, this book made learning C++ rather easy.

the book is clearly in explanation and show example in detail. It is simple to understand but the solving problem is harder than I expected.

Very authoritative, easy to follow, and the author does a great job at presenting the subject in great detail for the novice learner.

I used this as my textbook for my very first programming class. The professor relied heavily on this textbook, and while I feel like it had great code examples and explained some concepts well, I found for a majority of the concepts this book wasn't explaining them in a way that I truly understood. I often had to refer to different sources to understand topics. I think this book would be best used with another book, or maybe if used with a teacher who teaches material more thorough themselves.

What is the deal with these other people leaving reviews about how well the book was packaged or shipped? Yikes.Disclaimer: I haven't finished the book yet, I'm through 7 chapters. I figured I'd leave this review while I remembered to do so.Prior to this book I had next to 0 programming experience. The book does a great job of guiding the reader through the basics. The book typically gives an explanation, shows a very simple example, adds a few layers of information, shows a slightly more complex example, and continues this through the chapter. The chapters are divided up into good chunks of information. Chapter 5 on functions probably should have been subdivided, it felt like it dragged on and on and contained obnoxiously large amounts of information. For the most part the book doesn't assume you know too much, and gives plenty of background information before diving in. There have been a few times where I felt like it came up short in certain areas and didn't give a fair explanation prior, but these are few and far between.One of my favorite things about this book are the examples at the end of the chapter. They start out simple and get more challenging, and there are an abundant amount of examples. If you purchased a new book you get an access code which provides additional resources online, including the sample code throughout the chapter for you to easily compile and play with as well as answers to certain problems at the end of the chapter. Here's where one of my biggest problems with the book comes. The online resources provided with a new book only contain answers to the end-of-chapter problems for chapters 1, 2, and then 10+. What in the hell happened to solutions for chapters 3 through 9? Here's why the book gets 4 stars. In my opinion chapters 2 through 8 are the meat and potatoes of the book. Selection(if, if...else), sequence and repetition(loops) are covered in these chapters. Functions (and prototypes) are covered in these chapters. These are the basic building blocks and extremely important. So I've spent a ton of time working through the end-of-chapter problems and it sucks that the solutions for chapters 3 through 9 aren't there. In some cases I'm stumped by the problem, in other cases I've come to a solution and I'd like to compare my methodology (a new programmer) to theirs (an experienced programmer).

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awesome book and awesome class. learned alot

Fantastic book for learning the basics in C++

not much to comment on really, 94% of IT is dead, meaning 94% of MD's have been kicked out for being fake.