Essential C++

by Stanley B. Lippman

Book Overview

Readers can pick up this book and become familiar with C++ in a short time. Stan has taken a very broad and complicated topic and reduced it to the essentials that budding C++ programmers need to know... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201485184
• ISBN13: 9780201485189
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

At last!

Finally we have a short, concise introduction to C++. As Stan himself mentioned, it follows the "Learning Perl" approach. Thus this book is not meant to be an exhaustive treatise of the language, but should give a working programmer a chance to start using this complex language. It takes the Perl approach in saying: use as much as you feel comfortable with to start, and as your knowledge progresses expend on your technique. I have seen some complains about number of errors in this book. For an errata please go to http://www.develop.com/hp/slip/Errata_1st.pdf. Also http://www.develop.com/hp/slip/windows.zip contains the source code for this book. In short (literally) we have a great book, which does a great job introducing C++ and at the same time, it is small enough to be carried around. I highly recommend it.

Outstanding!

I was rather skeptical when I first heard of this book. After all, explaining C++ in anything less than 500 or 600 pages seemed impossible. I was very pleasantly surprised when I started reading though. This is very down-to-earth and crystal-clear reading. Easy to understand and, most importantly, you won't get overwhelmed by the sheer size of the mountain ahead of you. Naturally, you can't expect this book to turn you into a C++ guru. But that isn't its purpose. (Besides, there are *no* books that will turn you into a guru, only books that are more complete, including Stan's own C++ Primer.) This book is excellent for *learning* C++ and getting off the ground. It achieves this goal better than any other C++ book I've read. Once you've read this book, you can graduate to more advanced material, such as the C++ Primer (which is didactically very good) or Stroustrup's book (which is didactically nowhere near as good, but works better as a reference due to its terseness). "Essential C++" provides very solid C++ grounding without neglecting any of the important parts of the language. Highly recommended!

Excellent Book!

The nice thing about this book is that it can be used for both learning the C++ language as well as for having a handy reference. The book covers C++ with a supprisingly good level of details even though it's meant to be concise. The author wrote valuable comments about the execution efficiency issue when using different coding options.A general comment on the author's approach is that he starts with the basics of C without making a distinction between C and C++ related instructions as the book moves further ahead. The C++ coverage does not suffer from that approach, the emphasis being put clearly on C++. Consequently, I recommend this book but a reader having a good knowledge of regular C will of course feel more comfortable.

EXCELLENT PROFESSIONAL COVERAGE

THIS BOOK ALONG WITH LIPPMANS' C++ PRIMER ARE ALL THAT IS NEEDED TO LEARN C++. BOTH BOOKS ARE EXTREMELY GOOD, IMHO! P. S. NOT FOR THE 'TEACH YOURSELF C++ IN 21 DAYS CROWD" THESE BOOKS ARE FOR PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMERS.

Good introductory book on C++!

This book takes you from C++ ground zero up to writing some fairly complicated and interesting programs in a short time. Mr. Lippman provides progressively harder problems that need to be solved, and at each stage teaches you exactly those new language elements that are needed to solve each problem, so you can understand from the beginning the usefulness (and necessity) of the language features. The example programs are interesting, and best of all, he provides answers to the programming exercises (I always love it when an author does that!), so you can practice what you're learning and get feedback on how you're doing!