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From: cs132046@brunix (Garrett Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Needed : Recommendations for C++ texts for beginner
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Date: 14 Apr 89 03:04:27 GMT
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In article <1990009@hpctdls.HP.COM> jeff@hpctdls.HP.COM (Jeff Hughes) writes:
>   I just learned C++ about a month ago myself. I found the book "An 
>Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and C++" by Richard Wiener and 
>Lewis Pinson to be very useful. 
>   After reading the text, I typed in a couple of examples from chapter 6.
>These were the heterogenous linked list and search tree examples given 
>in listings 6.5 - 6.7 and 6.10 - 6.11. That should get you off to a good
>start.

Actually, I liked these examples too, and started planning a programming
assignment using the friend-type syntax that they used--and then got 
hell from my TA for using friends. I was told that for real object-oriented
programming, I couldn't access the inner structure of the objects like that;
I could only write "object::set_x(int x1)" and "object::get_x" type routines
to look at them.
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