No comments about Xerox splits C&F to open sales options. (Crum and Forster Inc.): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management.

No comments about Programmer's Guide To C++.

No comments about Numerical Integration: Recent Developments, Software and Applications (NATO Science Series C: (closed)).

No comments about C++ Guia Para Programadores En C.

No comments about Macintosh C Programming Primer: Mastering the Toolbox Using Think C.

No comments about Hands on Turbo C.

2 comments about Portable Gui Development With C++.

1. Watson's book which purports to put forth a cross-platform foundation class for MS Windows, Macintosh, and XWindows succeeds only in confounding the reader. First, the book completely skirts all important portability issues. It does not address keyboard input, binary data compatability, character codesets or anything else. The best example is perhaps the chapter on File I/O, which is all of THREE pages long (80% of which is source code).

   There is nothing which describes the philosophy and design of his class libraries as a whole. Instead, what you get are a single short chapter on the most rudimentary aspects of each of the three windowing environments supported.

   Perhaps the most rude shock of all is that the 100+ pages of source code literally dumped into the book are NOT included on a diskette or CD-ROM. No, instead you are expected to mail order a diskette from the author for the huge markup of $12, presumably to spare you hours of retyping the code. This is 1997 folks, how about an FTP site?

   Adding insult to injury is the condition that the code is NOT in fact freeware and you may not redistribute source code to programs written using it or suffer the threat of unspecified implied legal action.

   Thank heavens the title of this book doesn't include the catchphrase "Object-Oriented", because its not. There isn't even anything as descriptive as a class hierarchy. That's because the classes have no relationships.

   Your time would be better spent downloading any of the wonderful cross-platform GUI frameworks which are FREELY available on the Internet such as YACL or vxWindows.




2. Full of errors, buggy code, poor object design, and a real lack of study make this one of the most hated books in my library. Mark Watson and his publisher should be ashamed.

No comments about Lee thrives on 'micro' market. (Digital Systems Marketing Inc.'s William C. Lee) (company profile): An article from: San Diego Business Journal.

No comments about Objects, Abstraction, and Data Structures Using C++: Wiley Plus Stand-alone (Wiley Plus Products).

2 comments about Object Oriented Programming With C++.

1. There are many texts for OOP, but this one surely outshines the others. The language used is so simple and elegant, that once you start reading this book, it is very difficult to stop. Real life examples make learning very easy.

   I highly recommend this book to anyone, who wants to take the first dip into the ocean of Object Oriented Programming.




2. Background: I have done extensive procedural programming in a variety of languages including Fortran (mostly), c, Pascal, BASIC, PL/I, and even COBOL. I needed to learn object oriented programming (OOP) in a short time so I could guide my staff more effectively.
   I find Parson's to be an excellent book to introduce object oriented programming (OOP) in C++. The book is very well organized. Each chapter is divided in two sections, first the OOP concepts are covered, then the C++ syntax to achieve the concepts is presented. In this way, the OOP concepts are not tied to a particular language. The language is "secondary" to the OOP concepts. Also, in this way, the strengths and limitations of C++ are clearly described. I recommend this book to any programer doing the transition from procedural to OOP.