Paul Gries

This book is written in a straight forward, and precisive manner. It is written from students point of view rather than author's point of view. I think it is because authors long time university teaching experience. He will remind readers common misunderstand concept and make sure you get it right. This book is more in lecture notes style, so there is no nonsense explaination, and well written enough for individual self pace study. It starts from OOP concept first, then looping, array and others. The first 2 chapters are all the foundations for other chapters.

A BIG plus is the CD-ROM. It got the whole book in it, but in multimedia format, and a bit different arrangement. It teachs better in some areas. In the paperback book, it will indicate you when to refer to CD. You can also reconfirm your understanding by go though the CD, while reading the book and doing the execise. Inside the CD, it gots lab, project and extra homework.

Programming is not the same way studying history or philosophy, you MUST hand on practise the execise, I recommend you have your laptop at your side while reading the book, try out immediately, and think why mistake being made. You can gain a lot of efficiency by doing that.

I highly recommend this book for beginner programmer, so you got do things right from the beginning. Save you a lot of time in the future.… (más)