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C++ Primer Answer Book by Clovis Tondo & Bruce Leung Recommended

ISBN: 0 201 30993 9       Publisher: Addison-Wesley       Pages: 430pp       Price: $29.95

Categories:   beginner's c++

Reviewed by Steven Flintham in C Vu 11-5 (Jul 1999)

A book like this is going to be worse than useless if the answers are wrong. As a learner I can't confidently say that there are no errors, although I didn't notice any. Reassuringly, however, the acknowledgements indicate that the authors of C++ Primer have carried out a 'careful review of the text'. They have also written a very positive foreword.

The structure of the book mirrors that of C++ Primer; it contains 20 chapters, each of which contains the answers to the exercises in the corresponding chapter of C++ Primer. Every exercise is answered, including those that ask you to express an opinion. However, where an exercise says 'choose one of the following...' or similar, an answer is only provided for one of the options. This is understandable, but unfortunately there's no way to tell which one in advance without peeking at the answer.

The answers given include a fair amount of descriptive text; it's probably worth looking at the answer to an exercise even if you aren't going to do it to see if any useful hints or suggestions given.

Recommended for anyone learning C++ from C++ Primer; it makes doing the exercises that much more worthwhile.

Tondo
C++ Primer Answer Book by Bruce Leung & Clovis Tondo [Highly Recommended]  (Reviewed May 1999)
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