Student Value Edition for Problem Solving with C++ Author: Walter Savitch | Language: English | ISBN:
0132773341 | Format: PDF
Student Value Edition for Problem Solving with C++ Description
Problem Solving with C++ continues to be the most widely used textbook by students and instructors in the introduction to programming and C++ language course. Through each edition, hundreds and thousands of students have valued Walt Savitch’s approach to programming, which emphasizes active reading through the use of well-placed examples and self-test examples. Created for the beginner, this book focuses on cultivating strong problem-solving and programming techniques while introducing students to the C++ programming language.
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- Loose Leaf: 1026 pages
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley; 8 edition (May 20, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132773341
- ISBN-13: 978-0132773348
- Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Yet another overly wordy, poorly organized book. The average length of a chapter in college textbooks seems to have roughly doubled since I last was in college back in the early 90's. I'm not finding any more real content, just more words. This makes books difficult to use as references, as you have to read 20+ pages to answer just about any question.
Chapter 6 (on character I/O) is a particularly good (or bad) example. It rambles all over the place, touching on topics that don't need to be addressed in this chapter, which makes it difficult for readers to keep track of the key points of the chapter or to look up answers to specific questions. Want to know the difference between ofstream and ostream? It will take some effort to find the answer. The very important eof method for input streams isn't addressed until the 48th page of the chapter!
And does anyone proofread books these days? I would have hoped that by the 8th edition obvious errors would have been found and removed. No, the toupper function does NOT "return the uppercase version of Char_Exp" as the table on page 355 claims, it returns the ASCII value of the uppercase version. It's not clear to me that a discussion of methods for character variables properly belongs in a chapter on I/O anyway. Shouldn't it be in the chapter that introduces character variables? (Just about every chapter includes topics that logically should be in other chapters.)
By Jeffrey K. Smith
Not a great book, but not a bad one either. It's a nice introductory text, although maybe a bit wordy at times. Has a few references to syntax in new C++ 11 standard, which is helpful. However, my friend has an older copy of this book- the fourth edition. It is roughly the same book. If your teacher assigns end-of-chapter questions, the numbers might not be the same, but otherwise it seems identical. If you're assigned this book for class, you could probably save $100 and buy an older edition. Kind of wishing I had.
By Stephanie
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