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From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Are there good C++ frontends to Microsoft C 5.1 compiler?
Summary: Suggested book for C programmers
Keywords: Microsoft frontends, books
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Date: 10 May 89 20:52:28 GMT
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Reply-To: folta@tove.umd.edu.UUCP (Wayne Folta)
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"What book should an experienced C programmer read to learn C++?
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I just got this book, and I really like it:

   C++ for C Programmers
   by Ira Pohl
   The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co. (c) 1989
   ISBN 0-8053-0910-1
   Cost me: $27

I like its approach: it starts out with an overview of OOP, then basically
says: "You are an experienced C programmer, let's start out by pretending
that C++ is just a new C compiler, with some nifty improvements.  Then, we
will add features until we have covered everything."

A chapter listing:

   0. Intro
   1. An Overview of C++ and Object-Oriented Programming
   2. C++ as a Better C  [Stuff you could use w/o OOP]
   3. Classes
   4. Constructors and Destructors
   5. Operator Overloading and Conversions
   6. Inheritance
   7. Input/Output
   8. Advanced Features [Multiple Inheritance, etc.]

I had no OOP experience a week ago.  Then I got Smalltalk/V for my Mac
(Smalltalk--the original OOPL).  Yesterday, I got this book, and today
I put GNU's C++ (g++) on my Sun at work.  I am sold on C++ (though I will
use exclusively Smalltalk at home, where its interpreted nature is an
advantage).




Wayne Folta          (folta@tove.umd.edu  128.8.128.42)