Re: game_for_learning

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Christian Reiniger wrote:

>Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language, 3rd Ed." (ISBN 0-201-88954-4
>for the english version, but it's also available in german) is *the* book
>about C++ (Stroustrup after all created that language). It's perhaps not
>the very best book for learning the language, but it will also be useful
>later, as it also covers quite advanced topics.

I taught a beginner's course on C++ this fall, and I chose Stroustrup as
the course book. With the course now over I think it might have been a bad
decision for a first book for people learning C++. I can't recommend any
other easier book, but there are 'a few' C++ books out there. Once you
know the language to some extent then Stroustrup is worth its weight in
gold. As my students had some difficulty in understanding the book I ended
up creating a small 'tutorial' spanning roughly 350 pages. It was fun to
write, an it's quite good, IMHO, but in Swedish... :-)

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