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C++ How to Program (5th Edition) Review by Kamran
A poorly organized book with useless text to fill up the space
This book is definitely not a beginner's book. And this is definitely not a book for an intermediate of a professional programmer. Then, where does it stand? Simply put: nowhere!
A good book is well organized. This book, even thought claims to be well organized with so many additional aids apart from the text - they're actually a burden and an obstacle. I can't comprehend with so many stupid things coming into way (from software engineering observations, to case studies, to hints, to tips to error tips to x tips to y tips - PLEASE!)
I would rather like a book that makes the reading and learning process much easier instead of robotifying it. The book is 1300+ pages long but I think the amount of information covered in this book could have been covered easily in a book half this long i.e. about 650 pages max. A good example is Herbert Schildt's book (576 pages, C++ A Beginner's Guide). Perhaps it's not the pagecount that hurts, but the content in those pages that makes you feel burdened all your time.
I honestly feel that a lot of useless stuff has been inserted into this text just to make it look fat and 'professional' if you know what I feel but this really falls short of expectations. This book sounds like as if 10 different people are trying to teach you how to program at the same time! which is definitely no good!
This book tries to cover toooo much, but it only tries, and then it fails simply because it isn't able to cover everything. No book covers everything there is to know about C++. The deital people try to cover every thing there is to know about c++ and all too short of achieving that with success.
Sorry about this book. I would never buy a deital book again.