Aseld
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« on: August 01, 2007, 05:20:48 AM » |
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From a suggestion put forward by Shonoby.
Any book that you would specifically like to warn others against, post it here.
Mine:
C++ for Dummies. An absolutely awful book that taught me virtually nothing. Avoid this book.
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FlukeLogic
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« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2007, 05:40:59 AM » |
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LOL, that's the book I'm using right now.
How many times this guy confused the hell out of me by giving incorrect "code snippets" or just plain leaving stuff out. Half the time, the text in the book is totally different from the source code on the disk. As a good example, take the BitTest program on pg. 59, in which he forgot to put in the line cout.unsetf(cout.dec) I could not for the life of me figure out why the hell my program wouldn't output in hexadecimal mode when I copied it exactly from the book. But that's not even the end of it. On the next page he says:
"The first expression in our program, cout.setf(ios::hex), sets the output format from the default decimal to hexadecimal (you'll have to trust me for now that it works)."
First of all, that code is nowhere in the example program, secondly, I DID trust him. It DIDN'T work. And that's only ONE of the problems I had with C++ for Dummies. It's also extremely boring. Maybe not a major deal to all you pros out there, but to a nb like me it kinda helps to know what the hell is going on, and to have a little fun while doing it...
Maybe programmers should just program and not write books.
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« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2007, 06:45:51 AM » |
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atleast i'm not the only one that thinks those books are aweful
here's a nother one "Teach your self C++ in 21 Days" all of this series of books
as well as all the "For dummies" books not just the c++ one
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KTC
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« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2007, 07:00:42 AM » |
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*programming language* for dummies.
Teach yourself *programming language* in *amount of time*.
*anything* by Herbert Schildt
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syazhani
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« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2007, 09:41:36 AM » |
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*anything* by Herbert Schildt
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charlie
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« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2007, 05:22:03 PM » |
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Because his books are notorious for coding mistakes and bad practices. Also, he has written a lot of C++ books, and those books are popular (generally due to his easy to read style), so it is easiest to warn people away from all of his books rather than layout every one. I have yet to see a Schildt book get a good review from a C++ guru. All the ones reviewed by the accu have "not recommended" status.
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ih8censorship
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« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2007, 11:29:35 PM » |
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Shonoby
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« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2007, 02:16:13 AM » |
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LOL, ih8censorship i knew this was a good idea.
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ih8censorship
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« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2007, 03:55:39 AM » |
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lol i guess... i didnt realize there are so many crappy books
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« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2007, 10:21:24 PM » |
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The idea of this topic is really good(we have to know to buy the best)...
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« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2007, 12:28:12 AM » |
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WOW shonoby. You actually did somthing we like. Unlike your polymorphic stuff. JKJK:P
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Shonoby
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« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2007, 04:30:47 AM » |
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Hehe
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« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2008, 01:03:19 PM » |
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*programming language* for dummies.
Teach yourself *programming language* in *amount of time*.
*anything* by Herbert Schildt
Omg I ordered one just before joining the forum but any way will get some other from the recommended after few weeks but will use that one for now :-) |
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« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2009, 08:13:09 AM » |
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here's a nother one "Teach your self C++ in 21 Days" all of this series of books
why? im using that one and its looks pretty good, that 21 days is kinda lie, you would need lot of time so one chapter can take you just one day. |
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« Reply #14 on: December 29, 2009, 09:02:21 PM » |
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i think i used c++ for dummys and while i dont know about the important things, i still know some things.....which i guess is ok.
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I finally learned how to set up openGL!
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