Ok, honestly... do NOT buy the C++ Primer.
I bought it following these recommendations and already regretted it after a day or two...
It is badly structured and neither a book for the absolut beginner nor any advanced reading. The first function is defined on page 225. Up to that point a lot of functions are used, even the first 'class' written, without defining a single function... In fact: the Sales_item class used in the first chapter is not explained until chapter 14 (page 505+).
Because of this weird structure, there are a lot of vague explanations about what a class is, what inheritance is etc. with a friendly reference "read more about this in 300 pages".
If you want a proper order of things you should read the book something like this:
Code:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
chapter 6
half of chapter 7
chapter 3,4,5
chapter 12
and so on......
All in all its a very bad beginners book. It might be ok as a reference book if you already know some c++ but don't expect to find everything you are looking for. There are some advanced topics like custom allocator classes but other things are left out.
The only book i can recommend so far is "Professional C++" by Nicholas A. Solter and Scott J. Kleper ISBN 0-7645-7484-1.
It is a bit more advanced, but there are very nice things about style of code etc. in there. Worth a look if you already know some c++ (or c!) (there is a pdf copy of this book somewhere on the web
).
EDIT: I don't know where i've gotten this from, but somewhere on the web there is a collection of "132 C and C++ ebooks". This collections contains both the C++ Primer (4th ed.) and Professional C++ (2005) as well as a lot of trash and maybe a few more good books?!
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On one of the other threads about books. APOC and others had posted some eBOOK(s) of the same titles listed here and those links are invalid now can any one of you be kind enough to repost.
