Very basic introduction to C++

If you don't already know the C programming language, this is probably a pretty good book on C++ programming basics. It goes into control structures, arrays, strings, pointers, recursion, and abstract data types, among other topics. It even has a good introductory chapter on the basics of computing that even includes information on the binary and hex number systems. In that sense, it is good enough to stand alone as a pretty good textbook. However, there is one major component missing from this outline that is essential for anyone who claims to know C++ in any meaningful way, that being any mention of object-oriented programming constructs as expressed in the C++ language. If you don't know object orientation as it is expressed in C++, then you are just a C programmer programming with C++ notation. Thus, this outline is not wrong, it is just woefully incomplete. I still give it three stars because for the right audience it is a good beginner's text at a very cheap price. For those who are interested in learning object orientation as it is expressed in the C++ language, I instead recommend "Schaum's Outline of Programming with C++". In that book there is less of an emphasis on algorithms and computing and more of an emphasis on teaching the complete language with all of its components.

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