Re: good books to start from scratch

JS92647 wrote:


Do not take this as introduction to C++. It teaches way too many wrong
things.

Just a few samples from chapter 15, "advanced inheritance":

- It starts off with giving an example of aggregation, which has pretty
little to do with inheritance.
- #include <iostream.h>
- It sketches a badly written string class instead of using the one from the
standardlibrary.
- It takes its bad implementation of its string's operator+ as reason for
breaking const correctness, showing a severe misunderstanding of how some
things work.
- It then builds a linked list (again, as badly implemented as the string
class).
-...

The whole book doesn't even mention that there is a C++ standardlibrary
outside of IOStreams. In fact it seems like it was targetting a
pre-standard C++ dialect or, to put it differently, a dialect that is now
obsolete.

Sorry, but this is not a good way to learn modern C++.

Uli

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