C++ Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design, Third Edition is the ground-breaking, definitive text for the CS1 course. Best-selling author D.S. Malik employs a student-focused approach, using complete programming examples to teach introductory programming concepts. This third edition has been enhanced to further demonstrate the use of OOD methodology, to introduce sorting algorithms (bubble sort and insertion sort), and to present additional material on abstract classes. In addition, the exercise sets at the end of each chapter have been expanded, and now contain several calculus and engineering-related exercises. Finally, all programs have been written, compiled, and quality-assurance tested with Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, available as an optional compiler with this text.
If you are beginner with programming or C++ then this is the book you will need! It explain the concepts in an easy way, followed by examples. This is a great book and I used to understand by just reading it! I advice anyone who want to learn C++ wether it was his first programming language or not, to read it. It will help him/her a lot.
This is a great book and I used to understand by just reading it! I advice anyone who want to learn C++ weather it was his first programming language or not, to read it. It will help him/her a lot. Chapters are well organized, every chapter is written to the maximum detail without redundancy, followed by a rich brief of the chapter, tailed by an excellent set of related questions and problems to solve by writing programs for them which will enhance and reinforce your understanding of the material. I've been reading this book in a Structuring Programming course at the university.
C++ covers a lot of programming concepts which are hard to be understood in other languages such as Pointers etc. According to my perspective, this book is the best book in order to start learning to program. The other good point about the book is that the majority of example are explained and traced which is an important feature for those who are new to programming. Anyone who is eager to gain knowledge of what programming is must read this book.
Read the 7th edition for class. I think it is a pretty good book and it's used for two classes at my school so that's gotta be good. There was some redundancy though, but overall it did help me in the class.