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From: diomidis@ecrcvax.UUCP (Diomidis Spinellis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: disappointed with Pohl's C++ book
Summary: An Intorduction to OOP and C++ looks like a good book
Keywords: Books OOP R.S.Wiener L.J.Pinson
Message-ID: <765@ecrcvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 89 16:58:40 GMT
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Reply-To: diomidis@ecrcvax.UUCP (Diomidis Spinellis)
Organization: ECRC, Munich 81, West Germany
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In article <2293@hub.UUCP> frew@hub.ucsb.edu (James Frew) writes:
>I'm 1/3 of the way through "C++ for C Programmers", by Ira Pohl, and
>I'm not going to finish it.
[...]
>I'm still looking for a good intro to C++ for someone who already knows C.
I started reading the book:

@Book{	
	Author="Richard S. Wiener and Lewis J. Pinson",
	Publisher="Addison-Wesley",
	Title="An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and {C++}",
	Year="1988"
	ISBN="0-201-15413-7" 
}

I have already tried the Bjarne Stroustrup book and a tutorial on C++
by the same author published in the EUUG September 1985 proceedings.
I could not follow any of the two as they were trying to teach C and
C++ at the same time.  (The tutorial had just a faster pace).

The Wiener book is up to now (page 33) extremely readable (I found
myself reading it at breakfast) and assumes a good knowledge of C.  Its
pace is just right, concentrating on things new to a C programmer while
ignoring aspects of the C language a C programmer should be familiar
with.  This keeps the book interesting.

The chapters of the book are:
1. Object-Oriented Programming				(10 pages)
2. From C to Shining C++				(10 pages)
3. Getting Up to Speed with C++				(32 pages)
4. Data Encapsulation and Data Hiding Using Classes	(66 pages)
5. Inheritance and Derived Classes			(58 pages)
6. Polymorphism and Virtual Functions			(38 pages)
7. Case studies in Object-Oriented Programming		(87 pages)
 7.1 A "Super Fast" Spelling Checker
 7.2 Bank Teller Discrete Event Simulation
 7.3 Interactive Function Evaluator

I have no affiliation with any of the authors or the publishing company.

Diomidis
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