I have gone through a little over half of this book so far, and I feel I need

to write a review based on a few things I have seen.



1. The book is very well organized. It starts from absolute basics, and builds

on everything from there. This makes going from chapter to chapter very easy.

2. Some of the examples are very easy, and others are not. You do not want a

book that does everything for you. You might get stuck for hours, but in the end

you will learn something, which leads me to...

3. The downside of this book (actually I noticed that could be debatable), is

the number of typos in the examples of code. You can tell that the editors did

catch all the copy-paste mistakes as they were made quite a bit. But sometimes I

sat for hours wondering why my code wouldn't compile only to realize he made a

typo mistake. One of them I remember is when he had done a 'switch' statement,

he left out the integer expression... and being a newbie, it takes awhile to

catch. And he confuses his pointer names A LOT, naming one *pt then switching

to *pn. The up-side to this is you will be fixing people's code in the real world,

debugging, etc... so that's how I look at it. But frustrating nonetheless.

4. Sometimes it isn't quite clear how he is explaining a certain point, but

after thinking about it a bit, it starts to make sense later, usually in examples

or when he explains other ways of doing it. For the most part, the explanations

are pretty good.



Bottom-line, the standard hasn't changed too much since this edition so unless

you want to fish out top-dollar for the 6th edition that is out now, this one

will do fine; I got mine new for $10 shipped.

I actually started with Java as my first language and classes, objects, etc

didn't make too much sense until I studied them in C++ from this book... I

recommend studying C++ as a first language rather than Java like most schools

and universities do as Java is a more higher level language than C++, meaning

it has a little more abstraction level, however in theory Java is 'easier' to C++.

Just that C++ answered all my problems I had with Java.