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Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition

by Stroustrup Bjarne (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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An Introduction to Programming by the Inventor of C++

 

Preparation for Programming in the Real World

The book assumes that you aim eventually to write non-trivial programs, whether for work in software development or in some other technical field.

 

Focus on Fundamental Concepts and Techniques

The book explains fundamental concepts and techniques in greater depth than traditional introductions. This approach will give you a solid foundation for writing useful, correct, maintainable, and efficient code.

 

Programming with Today’s C++ (C++11 and C++14)

The book is an introduction to programming in general, including object-oriented programming and generic programming. It is also a solid introduction to the C++ programming language, one of the most widely used languages for real-world software. The book presents modern C++ programming techniques from the start,

introducing the C++ standard library and C++11 and C++14 features to simplify programming tasks.

 

For Beginners—And Anyone Who Wants to Learn Something New

The book is primarily designed for people who have never programmed before, and it has been tested with many thousands of first-year university students. It has also been extensively used for self-study. Also, practitioners and advanced students have gained new insight and guidance by seeing how a master approaches the elements of his art.

 

Provides a Broad View

The first half of the book covers a wide range of essential concepts, design and programming techniques, language features, and libraries. Those will enable you to write programs involving input, output, computation, and simple graphics. The second half explores more specialized topics (such as text processing, testing, and the C programming language) and provides abundant reference material. Source code and support supplements are available from the author’s website.

 

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Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++ and the author of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd Edition and The C++ Programming Language, among others. Having previously worked at Bell Labs, AT&T Labs - Research, and Texas A&M University, he is currently Managing Director in the technology division of Morgan Stanley in New York City. The recipient of numerous honors, including The National Academy of Engineering 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering “for conceptualizing and developing the C++ programming language,Dr. Stroustrup is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an AT&T Fellow, an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM Fellow. He was voted into Electronic Design's Engineering Hall of Fame in 2013. His research interests include distributed systems, simulation, design, programming techniques, software development tools, and programming languages, and he remains actively involved in the ANSI/ISO standardization of C++. Dr. Stroustrup holds an advanced degree from the University of Aarhus in his native Denmark and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University, England

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00KPTEH8C
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd edition (June 2, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 2, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 77853 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 1282 pages
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Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++.

He is a founding member of the ISO C++ standards committee and a major contributor to modern C++.

He worked at Bell Labs and is now a professor at Columbia University and a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.

He is a member of the USA National Academy of Engineering, an ACM, IEEE, and CHM Fellow.

He is a recipient of the Draper Prize.

His publication list is as long as your arm. For details, see his home pages (www.stroustrup.com)

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ERIK MIDTSKOGEN
5.0 out of 5 stars In-Depth Coverage from the Creator of C++
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2023
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I am a software engineer with ~16 years experience, mostly in Java and C#, with a little C++ early on, and I have recently been getting back into doing more C++. However, I've struggled a bit lately because C++ is a much thornier language than Java and C#, and it has also moved on from that it used to be.

The consensus of the online reviews seemed to be that people with experience in other mainstream languages can just jump straight into one of Stroustrup's more advanced C++ books. That turned out to be poor advice. So, I swallowed my pride and started (re)learning C++ from the ground up with this book. Although it is true that I already knew a fair amount of the subject material—especially in the earlier chapters (e.g. what functions/methods, classes, and templates are)—it's also true that this book has taught me many small but critically important things specific to modern C++ that have filled in holes in my knowledge that were holding me back.

This book is a true tutorial format. It has careful, clear, and well-thought-out explanations of all subject material. That coverage is cemented with drills and exercises. During the course of experimenting with the drills and exercises, I discovered and fixed many basic holes in my knowledge that I hadn't even known I had.

So, even though this book is accessible to a first-time student of programming, if you're coming into C++ from another language, I would still recommend it. You may end up skimming some of the content, but you'll also be surprised at how much extra knowledge you need before you can be proficient in C++. Until you gain this knowledge, many of the drills and exercises in this book will stop you in your tracks where you thought you were going to breeze right through.
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Jared T
5.0 out of 5 stars This book isn’t for everybody, but not everybody is meant to be a programmer.
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2021
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Don’t listen to the reviews that say “not for beginners”. Yes, there are parts of this book that seem impossible to get through if you’re the type who wants be spoon fed the solution to a problem. If you just want a book that will show you a bunch of code examples and problems with easy solutions, and doesn’t actually teach you how to program (in other words, you want to learn a programming language but don’t actually want to learn how to program), this book is not for you. There are tons of “learn <insert programming language> in 1 hour” type books that you would be better served by. But if, on the other hand, you want to learn, you actually take in the advice presented in this book, put in the work, and are the type of person who enjoys solving real world problems and are able to independently do some research when you get stuck (in other words, if you have what it takes to be a programmer), then this book is exactly for you.

There are a few chapters where you will have to go out of your way to get the code to work, such as the graphics chapters. You will have to figure out how to get a framework called FLTK installed and working in order to work through those chapters. It won’t be easy and this book will not hand you the answer to that issue. It will guide you and lead you in the right direction, but it won’t hold your hand. But if you can’t handle that “inconvenience”, you’re never going to be able to handle being a programmer, and you should probably just return the book. That part of the book took me months to figure out but it made me a better programmer (which is this book’s primary goal).

To quote a paragraph from the beginning of this book:
“This is not the easiest book on beginning programming; it is not meant to be. I just aim for it to be the easiest book from which you can learn the basics of real-world programming. That’s quite an ambitious goal because much modern software relies on techniques considered advanced just a few years ago.“
I don’t think one person who gave this book a bad review bothered to read that paragraph.
This is the only book I know of that will start you on the road to real world programming, and if that’s your goal, buy it. You won’t be sorry. This book isn’t for everybody, but not everybody is meant to be a programmer.
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Eric Siron
5.0 out of 5 stars Exemplary Work, but You Need to Read Carefully
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2017
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This book is excellent and surprisingly thorough for a beginner's book. What you get out of it will depend on your own learning style and the level of effort that you put into it.
The material was designed with an instructor-led course in mind. I wish I'd had the opportunity to work through it that way, especially with other students.
If you can't have that either, then just be warned that you'll need to follow the recommendations in the "Notes to the Reader" section. Pace yourself, read closely, and be prepared to re-read. Do the exercises... maybe not all of the exercises, but certainly any that look like they'll be a challenge. It plainly says that they chose to "understate" rather than "hype". I found a number of places that I wish they'd hyped a bit more. If you skim this text, you will miss important things.
This book uses an approach that manages to be both practical and unique. Most programming books have you following examples that you'll probably never use. Since every programmer will go on to do different things, that's almost unavoidable. So, this book does the same, but in a way that the lessons stick.
After the language basics, they have you drawing a lot of 2D shapes. Even if you'll never do that, work through the chapters anyway. You'll learn lots of about inheritance and substitution, among other things.
After that, they have you build a template class that mimics the standard vector. However, you don't just write final code. You follow the same logical progression that a real world program often takes. You start off by building enough to solve the problem at hand. Then, you refine the code to solve additional problems, including some that are caused by your early solutions. You wind up with something that looks very much like the official vector. The best part is that you understand why it looks that way and what it does. Even though you'll probably never (and probably shouldn't) build your own vector, you walk away with a clear understanding of a gigantic stack of concepts -- all based on a real-world challenge.
I don't have any meaningful negative criticism, but the book is not quite perfect. I understand not wanting to "hype" language features, but I felt that some things were unnecessarily muted. For instance, I feel like lots of people don't really understand the way that memory works or the dangers of not carefully allocating/freeing it. The material covers that, but introduces the related problems quite a bit later than I would expect and with a subdued tone. A close reading of the text mitigates that concern. Having an instructor to show you what to draw red boxes around would help a lot, as well.
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Shanmukh
5.0 out of 5 stars Top class programming book
Reviewed in Canada on July 11, 2023
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Superb book explaining not only the features of C++ but also the philosophy behind the various books. Awesome book in all ways.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Uno de los mejores libros de Consulta de C++
Reviewed in Mexico on February 10, 2023
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Excelente Libro. No me lo esperaba tan grueso y tan completo, valió la pena.
El envío tomo un poco de tiempo ya que lo envían desde E.U. pero superó mis expectativas, excelente el nivel de detalle, la explicación clarísima, ejercicios, y un muy buen diseño editorial.
Ampliamente recomendable para quienes usan C++
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José Roldão Gonçalves Barbosa
5.0 out of 5 stars The potencility to Solve problems using C++ in computation programming
Reviewed in Brazil on September 27, 2021
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a very didactic approach leads the reader to understand the enormity of resources and potentialities of the C++ language in solving problems in its applications.
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Alessandro
5.0 out of 5 stars Uno dei libri migliori.
Reviewed in Italy on January 16, 2024
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Insegna a programmare con una bella visione ampia su questa passione o professionalità. Adatto a tutti e fatto egregiamente. Non insegna il c++ di per se.
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Raavanan The Hero
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best resource for C++ core
Reviewed in India on March 21, 2023
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To strengthen core knowledge it's really good resource
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