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C++ For C Programmers by Ira Pohl
Highly Recommended

ISBN: 0-8053-0910-1 Publisher: Benjamin Cummings Pages: 240pp Price: £24.25

Categories: advanced c++

Reviewed by Alastair Gill in C Vu 3-3 (Mar 1991)

A more recent acquisition was Ira Pohl's book, C++ for C programmers. This is similar to the Disk Tutor in its organisation, with each chapter bringing in new constructs and concepts within the language but assumes that the programmer is considerably more experienced. Indeed, this could be used as a reference. Pohl describes the language element at the start of each section, then provides a short program illustrating the use and finishing with a 'dissection' of the critical lines of the program. In this way, the reader is forced to attempt to understand the concept first but has access to a sort of 'crib sheet' to refer to if necessary. Each chapter ends with a summary of the language component and a series of exercises. This is not a book for someone new to C programming as the author refers back to C throughout the book, but for anyone else - highly recommended.

Other Authors with the same surname

Pohl
Book on C (3rd ed), A by Kelley & Pohl (Reviewed Jan 1996)
Book on C 4ed, A by Al Kelley & Ira Pohl [Recommended] (Reviewed Mar 2000)
C++ for C Programmers 3rd ed by Ira Pohl [Not Recommended] (Reviewed May 1999)
C++ for Pascal Programmers (2nd ed) by Ira Pohl (Reviewed Nov 1995)
Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ (2ed) by Ira Pohl [Not Recommended] (Reviewed May 1997)
Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ by Ira Pohl (Reviewed Jul 1993)

Last Update - 13 May 2001.

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