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sfk
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The C++ and programming books I recommend
Is this the book that evolves a student-grading application over 300+ pages? If so, I honestly do not understand why people call this book
concise
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If you know C already, the pace of the book is so slow that you'll lose interest.
city41
on Feb 23, 2014
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It's more targeted at people who do not know C. Koenig argues that building on C knowledge to learn C++ is a bad idea. They discuss this in the preface of the book.
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If you know C already, the pace of the book is so slow that you'll lose interest.