ryan@sjuphil.uucp (Patrick M. Ryan) (06/28/90)
Can someone recommend a good general purpose introductory text to programming in C++? I am already versed in C but not in OOP in general. Please reply via email. Thanks, Pat -- patrick m. ryan saint joseph's ryan@sju.edu / ryan%sjuphil.sju.edu@bpa.bell-atl.com university {bpa|burdvax|princeton|rutgers}!sjuphil!ryan philadelphia pmr@gemini.gsfc.nasa.gov pennsylvania
jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) (06/30/90)
In article <1990Jun28.013550.11055@sjuphil.uucp> ryan@sjuphil.UUCP (Patrick M. Ryan) writes: > >Can someone recommend a good general purpose introductory text to >programming in C++? I am already versed in C but not in OOP in >general. There's enough new C++ programmers coming on line that this question gets asked about every other week -- which is good -- it shows how the language is growing. So I'll post the following book list, which tries to suggest the best, most popular books in a reasonable order for a C++ newcomer to purchase: 1) A very quick, simple walk-though of C++ features with examples on disk: Teach Yourself C++, Al Stevens, MIS Press 1990 2) The most popular, most highly recommended general text to C++: A C++ Primer, Stanley B. Lippman, Addison-Wesley 1989 3) An excruciatingly detailed language lawyer description of the language today: The Annotated C++ Reference Manual, Margaret Ellis & Bjarne Stroustrup, Addison-Wesley 1990 4) How to do object-oriented programming -- but the C++ examples are weak: Object Oriented Design with Applications, Grady Booch, Benjamin-Cummings "1991" [but available now] 5) The original C++ text -- but needs to be updated to the 2.1 version of C++: The C++ Programming Language, Bjarne Stroustrup, Addison Wesley 1986 6) Excellent worked answers to the above book: The C++ Answer Book, Tony L. Hanson, Addison-Wesley 1989 7) You read all this already? Then read the last couple years of OOPSLA proceedings and C++ conferences and workshops, get a subscription to Journal of Object Oriented Programming and The C++ Report, read the major texts on Smalltalk and Eiffel, read notes, and program, program, program!