本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛"The C++ Programming Language", third edition, by Bjarne Stroustrup
- This is the standard reference for C++, so you probably want to
own it eventually.
- Most students without experience in C++ find
the book very hard to read.

"C++ Primer", by Lippman
- Still fairly thorough, but easier to read.
- I haven't reviewed this book in detail, but it seems to be one
of the better ones. Several faculty have told me they like it.

"C++: How to Program", by Deitel and Deitel
- I'm not fond of their writing, but many students seem to like this
book. They find it very readable.

========Here's my invitation to discuss:

> ... a note to those who already know C++ and who missed that part
> of yesterday's lecture: I'm having trouble recommending a good book for
> your colleagues to learn C++ from. King's text isn't enough, and I find
> Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" a little too forbidding for
> newcomers to C++. I know there are various books out there with fanatical
> adherents, but I haven't read any of them myself.
>
> So, if there's a book you particularly liked -- or didn't like -- for
> learning C++ as a second (or two-and-a-halfth) language, I invite you to
> post an item to the course newsgroup about it. As I told the class,
> completely uncritical praise will not likely be so convincing as more
> balanced consideration, but we'll be grateful for anything.

"Beginning Visual C++ 5" by Ivor Horton
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I have a C++ book that I think is pretty good:

Beginning Visual C++ 5 published by WROX, by Ivor Horton. I have found this
publisher has an excellent series of books on Java, Visual Basic, and C++.
They're all easy to recognize because the cover is all red, and there is a
big geeky picture of the author on the cover.

Now, obviously, this is geared toward the Visual C++ 5.0 IDE (there is also
one on Borland C++ by the same author), but it starts off by teaching you
C++, then getting into how to use the IDE. It is also a good read with
sufficient detail - not a dull textbook type of thing.

[There is more discussion of Horton's book mingled with Stroustrup's
in the next group.]

"The C++ Programming Language", third edition, by Bjarne Stroustrup
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[Obviously, not everyone agrees with me!]

I strongly suggest you get yourself a copy of "The C++ Programming
Language" third edition by (none other than) Bjarne Stroustrup. Stroustrup
created C++ and he is god of C++. The book is a little hard to follow and
may even put you to sleep, but it is, hands down, the best C++ reference
book out there.

The types of books you mention* usually give a very brief and incomplete
[* referring to the note on Horton's "Beginning Visual C++"]
"overview" of the language. In fact, the "Visual" part of those book
titles strongly suggest they're trying to teach you how to use either MFC
or OWL, two separate (and very fat) Windows class libraries.

I guess this should be said: Stroustrup's book only covers C++, all 400
pages of it. Compare that to a "VIsual" programming book's 30-50 page
"overview". Which would you rather have?

[The original proponent of Horton's book replied:]

Actually, I have both.

I bought Stroustrup's book a few years ago. It is certainly the Bible of
the language, but it is not exactly user friendly, nor is it full of useful
exercises and examples for a person starting out in the language or who is
at the intermediate stage.

As for the book I suggested, it is NOT one of those books that gives you a
short overview of C++. It teaches you C++ and THEN it teaches you the IDE.

Incidentally, there are three versions of this book, all by the same author:

Beginning Visual C++
Beginning Borland C++
Beginning C++

So if you don't want anything about IDE's - the last one is your best bet.
As for the one I have - it hardly touches anything about Windows programming
for the first 500 pages. The book itself is 1000 pages long. Anyway, here
are what the first 11 chapters of the one I have covers:

Chapter 1: Programming with Visual C++
Chapter 2: Data, Variables, and Calculations
Chapter 3: Decisions and Loops
Chapter 4: Arrays, Pointers and References
Chapter 5: Introducing Structure into your Programs (Understanding
functions, passing arguments, returning values, recursive function calls)
Chapter 6: More About Program Structure (Pointers to functions, initializing
function parameters, exceptions, function overloading, function templates)
Chapter 7: A Taste of Old-Fashioned Windows (The struct in C++, then a
couple of Windows topics)
Chapter 8: Structuring your data using Classes (Data types, objects, classes
and instances, understanding classes, class constructors, private members of
a class, the pointer 'this', arrays of objects of a class, static members of
a class, pointers and references to class objects)
Chapter 9: More on Classes (Class destructors, sharing memory between
variables, operator overloading, class templates, using classes, organizing
your program code into files)
Chapter 10: Class Inheritance (basic ideas of OOP, Inheritance in classes,
access control under inheritance, the copy constructor in a derived class,
class members as friends, virtual functions, multiple inheritance).
Chapter 11: An example using classes.

That covers pages 1-459. After that, it gets into MFC's, DLL's and all that
Windows stuff.

"C++: An Introduction to Programming" by Jesse Liberty and Jim Keogh
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A good, basic introduction can be had from a book like ...: "C++: An
Introduction to Programming" by Jesse Liberty and Jim Keogh (QUE Press). It
attempts to introduce C++ at about the level of CSC 148. Like most books by
QUE press, it's a bit heavy on verbiage, but it's a quick read, and explains
pretty much everything in a gentle sort of way -- including a detailed
discussion on templates, overloading, multiple inheritance, the whole C++ bit.

"C++ Primer", by Lippman
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[A recommendation passed on by someone else:]

>My book was by Lippman. I got the impression that he was sort of well
>known in academic circles, and I think I saw his name mentioned as the
>author of some paper on something interesting related to computer
>science. The book was basically well organized, but I haven't read too
>many others. Some books consistently point out facts that answer
>questions that just have popped into your mind after reading the previous
>section. The Stroustrup book was like that, but that book is not meant
>for beginners. In other words, it doesn't have lots of sample programs
>on how to do basic, commonly used tasks; file I/O is in chapter 21 in a
>chapter called "Streams". The Lippman book is meant for beginners (I
>think it's called "An introduction to C++" or something), and so is
>organized properly, but I wouldn't classify it as one of those
>answering-popping-questions books.

[A clarification by another contributor:]

The book title is C++ Primer.

Beware: there are wannabe's with titles "A C++ Primer", "The C++
Primer", etc. They are not remotely close.

"Teach yourself C++", 2nd ed., by Herbert Schildt
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Teach yourself C++ 2nd ed. by Herbert Schildt
is a very readable book that assumes the student is experienced in c.
It also provides a good description of OOP.
There are lots of examples and exercises.
The price on the copy that I have from the UofT bookstore is $35.95.

[A comment by another contributor:]

I never read it, but I read or glanced through some other books by
him; in particular I read his Artificial Intelligence Using C, 1987.
My opinion is that his books are great for beginners, in fact great
for keeping you a beginner forever --- he talks about easy things, and
never attempts to bring you to a higher level like Lippman does. He
has lots of sample code for you to copy, but not enough theory or
explanation of what is happening; consequently you cannot adapt his
code to your own problems.

University-level books in general
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[including Savitch; Adams et al.; Lippman; Pohl]

Usually books used as course textbooks
in universities are a good choice. So
a way to select a good book is to find
out which ones are being used by universities.

For example, although not a C++ course,
UBC uses "Problem solving with C++" by Walter Savitch
as a textbook in one of the intro. courses
(see http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/cs152/).

Another example, the U. of Texas has a C++ course
and they use "C++: An Introduction to Computing"
2nd edition, by Joel Adams, Sanford Leestma, and
Larry Nyhoff
(see http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sarvela/cs105c++/)

Another school: Stanley Lippman, "The C++ Primer", 2nd Edition.
Addison-Wesley, 1991.

Also, Ira Pohl's books have been used by universities.
Some of her (his?) books are "C++ for C programmers",
"C++ for Pascal Programmers" and "Turbo C++". All these
books are from the Benjamin/Cummnigs Series in
Computer Science so they are better than QUE books
or "Teach yourself whatever" books.

"Practical C++ Programming" by Steve Oualline
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I find 'Practical C++ Programming' by Steve Oualline (O'Reilly & Associates)
to be a very well organized and easy to read text on how to program in C++.
The layout is much like a text (simpler subjects moving on to more complex
subjects), but there is also a robust (complete) and well organized index, so
it also makes a good reference book.
The ISBN is 1-56592-139-9, and there's a cute picture of a chipmunk on the
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