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Essential C++ Review by Subbaiah N. Venkata
As Simple As Possible, But No Simpler
The enormous success of C Programming Language is, IMHO, because it is simple, flexible and powerful. The whole language is very well written by K&R in the classic book. Every sentence in that book is precise yet complete. For novice, the learning curve of C++ is steep because it is not as simple as C. At least, at first, software developers are afraid of the huge number of features and the inter-connections it offers.
I have been waiting (and wondering) why pioneers of the C++ language didn't provide a simple book (at the same size of K&R C) for the developer community? Here is the answer I found with this book "Essential C++". I bought C++ Primer long time ago. But I couldn't finish reading that book - just because the book is huge and better serves as a reference. With the same attractive/readable font and formatting as C++ Primer, Essential C++ offers a very good introduction to C++ in a step-by-step fashion - Procedural, Generic, Object-Based, Object-Oriented and STL programming.
I sincerely suggest that every C++ programmer will be benefited by reading this book first. After reading this book, I am sure, you will change impression about C++ and look it as a beautiful, elegant and powerful language.