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With over 250,000 sold, Harvey and Paul Deitel's C++ How to Program is the world's best-selling introduction to C++ programming. Now, this classic has been thoroughly updated! The Deitels' groundbreaking How to Program series offers unparalleled breadth and depth of programming concepts and intermediate-level topics for further study. The books in this series feature hundreds of complete, working programs with thousands of lines of code. Deitels' C++ How to Program is the most comprehensive, practical introduction to C++ ever published-with hundreds of hands-on exercises, roughly 250 complete programs written and documented for easy learning, and exceptional insight into good programming practices, maximizing performance, avoiding errors, debugging, and testing. The updated Fifth Edition now includes a new early classes pedagogy-classes and objects are introduced in Chapter 3 and used throughout the book as appropriate. The new edition uses string and vector classes to make earlier examples more object-oriented. Large chapters are broken down into smaller, more manageable pieces. A new OOD/UML ATM case study replaces the elevator case study of previous editions, and UML in the OOD/UML case study and elsewhere in the book has been upgraded to UML 2. The Fifth Edition features new mini case studies (e.g., GradeBook and Time classes). An employee hierarchy replaces Point/Circle/Cylinder to introduce inheritance and polymorphism. Additional enhancements include tuned treatment of exception handling, new “Using the Debugger” material and a new "Before You Begin" section to help readers get set up properly. Also included are separate chapters on recursion and searching/sorting. The Fifth Edition retains every key concept and technique ANSI C++ developers need to master: control statements, functions, arrays, pointers and strings, classes and data abstraction, operator overloading, inheritance, virtual functions, polymorphism, I/O, templates, exception handling, file processing, data structures, and more. It also includes a detailed introduction to Standard Template Library (STL) containers, container adapters, algorithms, and iterators. The accompanying CD-ROM includes all the source code from the book. A valuable reference for programmers and anyone interested in learning the C++ programming language and object-oriented development in C++.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30574 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1536 pages

About the Author

Dr. Harvey Deitel is one of the world's leading computer science instructors and seminar presenters, and author of more than a dozen books. He worked on the pioneering operating system teams in industry and academia that developed many of the techniques at the heart of operating systems like UNIX®, Windows NT™ and OS/2™.

Paul Deitel has taught Visual Basic, Java, C and C++ at numerous hardware and software companies, including Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, Open Environment Corporation, Adra Systems, and Cambridge Technology Partners, and is himself an expert developer.

The Deitels are principals of Deitel & Associates, Inc., an international training organization specializing in Visual Basic, Java, C and C++, and object technologies.

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Customer Reviews

Lots of words but very little information
I wish I had been able to browse this book at a store before buying it. This book takes about 100 pages of information and stretches it out into over 1500. Save your money and buy "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne Stroustroup. At least you can use his book as a reference.

Deitle's How To Program C++
This whole series is great for beginner to intermediate programmers. C++ is a great language to learn some of the more advanced concepts in programming anyway (though a tough one to start out on). I recommend Java to start with and then C++ for topics such as namespaces, pointer manipulation, stack use and address issues since most of these are left to the java virtual machine and not easily accessible in java. Deitles' books cover topics in a "from the basics" point of view and there is usually some part of that knowlege that is missing or left out of a given programming class.

superb information but poor way to approach it
Its a pity that I should give this book 3 stars.The authour's have made a great job in writing a comprehensive introductory to intermidiate book for C++, this is one of the books in which the authours have tried to explain concepts deeply.
the book has a lot of different parts that help you undrestand the things which were talked about in the chapter, for example one of those parts is "common programming error" which has a red symbol and a thumb pointing down and it tells you about some common mistakes that are made about the syntax that was just taught.
However, although the text has tried to teach deeply and clear, it fails to approach all of those information in a good manner.
For example the book gives you an example code tries to teach you functions( the whole idea of return types and passing and returning), classes, objects, private and public member functions and class variables all in one section.it would have been much better if they taught functions first and then passing variables and then returning expressions and at last classes and object, why they want to teach all of these in one section? you should ask the authours.
Another problem of this book which might not be supposed so important is its chapter introductions, imagine you dont know anything about functions and objects from before and then in the introduction of chapter 3 the authour explains the sections of the chapter for instance he says that in the third section of this chapter we will look at software reusibality with the classes.this introduction will do nothing except confusing and scaring you.

last but not least, this book will use terms that it has not given any definitions for, it will call the functions in your class , the member functions of your class and it will use the word " argument" for the stuff inside the brackets of your functions before ever telling you what argument means, and if you are a beginner these words will confuse you.

in short I recommend this book to you if you have access to a teacher/professor. If you are an absolute begginer like I used to be when I bought this book, go get Accelerated C++: practical programming by example by Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Moo but remember that Accelerated C++ will not get as far as this book gets, again this is a very good book from the point of view of the things that it has,but it fails to go through all this good stuff in a clear manner.