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C++ for Dummies Review by mayanerd
Book with errors and long chats..
Not only the book has a lengthy context, where the author shows humor and keep telling stories, I would read a stephen kings if I needed to read a story, I love books that keep text to a minimum and are to the point, but
Also the book contained fatal mistakes, there you go:
1- The author mentioned explicitly on more than an occasion that 'endl' key word is used for pausing in the console window, and we all know it's not true, a system pause is called upon to do that.
2- The author clearly stated that the operand && used for a boolean variable 'Total' that is either true if both variables are equal or false if they are not as follows:
Total == nVar1 && nVar2;
now the preceding statement is wrong as the resulting value of nVar1 and nVar2 will never be a boolean result in addition to due variable initiation failure of Total, and the correct answer should be:
Total = nVar1 == nVar2; this statement compares nVar1 and nVar2 values and if they are similar a true state is assigned to Total.
Last the subject of classes and OOP is not well covered nor actually covered at all in the book neither anything about UML is mentioned and that's what we are really learning c++ for.
I stopped reading the book and went for C++ in 24 hours, not the best but it gets down to real business with examples and very little chat.
I am very disappointed at the book.
If this book is for dummies I reckon you will be dummy after reading it when you never were before.