Moving from C to C++

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 450 pages
• Published by: Sams Publishing
• Edition: 1st Edition October 1992
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 067230080X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0672300806
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Reader Reviews
The cover art for this book shows "C++" as a pit of hellfire and brimstone in an otherwise clear and open road, with sulfurous vapors rising from it--which matches my opinion of C++, so I figured the book would be worth a try, given that I have to learn C++. So far, it looks like a reasonable, gentle introduction to the language, but at the beginning there are some pretty basic errors in its discussion of C that make me wonder whether I'll be misled about C++. Cases in point: pp.16-17, where the author claims that the sizeof a variable of type char is sizeof(int) in C (it's not, even though in C, "character" constants actually have type int); p.24, where the author says that in C, uninitialized variables have random contents (that's only true for automatics; others are zeroed). It looks pretty thorough, though, so I hope a new edition with corrections and updated to deal with the new (draft?) standard and libraries will come out (though considering that these days, "introductions" to C++ are running at 1200 or so pages, I expect that would be a LOT of work). Comment | | (Report this)