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From: jon@hanauma (Jon Claerbout)
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Subject: Book reports
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I'm an intermediate level C programmer who wants to learn OOP and C++.
I just spent about a week reading from the four books below:

Stroustrup, "The C++ Programming Language,"
	Not for beginners like me.
Berry, John: "The Waite Group's C++ Programming,"
	First 70 pages were OK.  Then I switched to the other books.
Sessions, Roger "Reusable data structures for C" (Prentice Hall 88)
	A good read.  Clear code, clearly motivated.  I got
	about half way through.
Wiener and Pinson "An Introduction to OOP and C++"
	On first sight, I didn't like the extensive code,
	but on reading the book, I changed my mind.
	I found the code easy to read and very helpful.
	It is much nicer to have complete runnable code
	than mere fragments.
	They choose their examples very well.

I learned the most from Sessions and from Weiner and Pinson.
As teachers, I'd rate them "A" and the other two "C".
I couldn't find the other books mentioned in comp.lang.c++