With Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, author Jesse Liberty presents a rapid and well-organized program for getting up to speed in C++ programming. By making the seemingly complex world of C++ digestible in daily doses, Liberty delivers a tutorial that keeps you motivated and yields serious results.

This book uses a chapter-a-day approach, with the course outline clearly presented inside the front cover so you'll know exactly where you're headed. Unlike many C++ tutorials, this book doesn't put you to sleep early on with object-oriented programming (OOP) theory. Instead, it quickly makes you productive with the basics of the C++ language and then reinforces your new knowledge with OOP as you move through the teaching program.

The first week introduces you to the fundamentals: the anatomy of a C++ program, variables, expressions, functions, program flow, and the basics of classes. Week two introduces some of the more sophisticated elements of the language such as pointers, arrays, and function overloading in a clear and effective manner. The final week concludes your crash course with advanced topics: streams, advanced inheritance, the C++ pre-processor, templates, and error handling. One day is also devoted strictly to object-oriented analysis and design. Each chapter finishes with a daily summary, a Q&A section, a quiz, and a series of excellent coding exercises.

This tutorial, which is designed to teach you to write industry standard ANSI C++ code, requires no previous programming expertise. If you want to get serious with C++ in a hurry, this book is an excellent way to go.

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This 21-day tutorial teaches one of the most popular programming languages today. This book is aimed towards novice programmers who wish to make the shift from procedural programming to object oriented design and programming in C++.

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1.0 out of 5 stars This is a junk book, Sep 9 2011

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The examples in this book are too long. It does not even explain how to read from a directory. It is almost as if the author has never written a useful program.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The "REAL GENIUS" of it is, the Logical Output Flow., Mar 22 2005

Neil W. Fisk (Edmonton, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews

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I'm not overstating my opinion of this book, but the "REAL GENIUS" of it is, the logical Output flow. With plently of whitespace which surrounds each line of code in all the chapters, the reader can visual see and compare what the compiler does with each line of code from all the illustrations given. The summaries are generally short, stating only the key modifications for each code illustrated. The code has been well groomed, almost perfect, except it's the level of difficulty which uncovers the C++ language. The authors have made this clear, but the "REAL GENIUS" of it still remains. The book is one of the best C++ titles I've read so far, I can't empathize this enough, try it out, it's worth a look!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Saved my Life, Jun 19 2004

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This book literally saved my life and career. Unlike the rest of my Computer Science peers, I didn't pick up programming as fast as others. During my first C++ course, I struggled immensely using the textbooks (C++ Primer, etc). I picked this book up, and was able to use it to complete all of my assignments and understand it enough to read harder books as well as do well in the class. It saved my life, that's all I can say, and now I am a graduate student in Computer Science, I owe it all to this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS A GREAT BOOK TO START WITH.
Given that 'teaching' one's self a computer programming language is a daunting task anyway, Jesse Liberty's book takes a clean and understandable approach to the subject, broken... Read more

Published on May 3 2004

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative, but somewhat difficult
The book covers all the bases well, but the examples given jump in difficulty very quickly when they could have been simplified more, which combined with actual c++ errors makes... Read more

Published on April 10 2004 by Ian O'shaughnessy