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Problem Solving with C++: United States Edition Paperback – 20 February 2008
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- Print length1072 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPearson
- Publication date20 February 2008
- Dimensions18.8 x 3.51 x 22.96 cm
- ISBN-100321531345
- ISBN-13978-0321531346
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About the Author
Kenrick Mock is an Associate Professor at the University of Alaska–Anchorage. He has also taught at Washington Stat University, Portland State University, and the University of California–Davis. He teaches undergraduate computer science courses across the curriculum including introductory C++, Java™, Visual Basic® for non-programmers, algorithms, computer security, and artificial intelligence. With the Coastal Marine Institute at UAA, he helped develop a computer system to aid in research about Alaska sea ice and the atmosphere. Before becoming a teacher, Mock was a research scientist and software engineer at Intel™. He received a PhD in computer science from UC Davis.
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- Publisher : Pearson; 7th edition (20 February 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 1072 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0321531345
- ISBN-13 : 978-0321531346
- Dimensions : 18.8 x 3.51 x 22.96 cm
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About the author
Walter John Savitch (born February 21, 1943) is best known for discovering the complexity class NL (nondeterministic logarithmic space), and for Savitch's theorem, which defines a relationship between the NSPACE and DSPACE complexity classes. His work in establishing complexity classes has helped to create the background against which non-deterministic and probabilistic reasoning can be performed.
He has also done extensive work in the field of natural language processing and mathematical linguistics. He has been focused on computational computing as it applies to genetics and biology for over 10 years.
Aside from his work in theoretical computer science, Savitch has written a number of textbooks for learning to program in C/C++, Java, Ada, Pascal and others.
Savitch received his PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1969 under the supervision of Stephen Cook. Since then he has been a professor at UCSD where he is currently a professor emeritus in the computer science department.
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Now that I've completed the book, I'm going to work back through it on my own and do more of the assignments to keep my skills sharp. Any book that helps one understand the concepts well enough to be kept for a reference is a good one.
If you are an absolute beginner, I wouldn't recommend starting with C++. Otherwise, this book should be a good start for you, too.
The writing style and explanations are very clear and concise with an appropriate number of useful examples. I would recommend this to someone wishing to learn C++, of which I have had a hard time finding a good book on. I wish I found this years ago instead of the other ones that I have, which have been painful to learn from -- hence why I am still not very C++ savvy.
It does not teach you C first, which is preferable in my view (though I love C and am C savvy). It dives right in to the C++ feature set and does utilize the C++ STL (Standard Template Library) right from the start (isn't a C printf statement anywhere in the book). It does appear to go deep into many things. Here are a few of what I would consider important chapters (overall chapter topics): variables, looping & flow control & branching, functions, streams, arrays, string class & vectors, classes, inheritance, namespaces, nodes and linked lists, recursion, and exception handling to name a few of the 18 chapters.
The 'slightly misleading title' is the "Problem Solving" part of the title. "Problem Solving with C++" doesn't sound like a beginners book, it sounds like and advanced book that teaches new problems solving concepts and techniques to those who already know C++. Something like "Learning C++ With A Problem Solving Approach" would be more appropriate for this book.
I am 100 pages into this book (which went very smoothly), therefore will update this review in future. It only lost one star because of the title and because I haven't read the whole thing yet. So far I think it's an outstanding C++ book.