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From: kitt on 12 Oct 2005 13:52
i heard that there is a book which contains the exercise answers for all
the program projects / exercises in Stroustrup's 'The C++ Programming
Language'.

i dont have a lot of cash right now and so the last thing i want to do
is splash out on another pricey book that i dont really need. i have not
deceded whether i do 'need' this book or not.

my question is has anyone actually read & learnt from the answer book?
Would i be better off just posting my problems here when i get stuck.?
or is it worth the investment?

i appreciate your thoughts on this.

thanks
kitt
From: Mark P on 12 Oct 2005 14:18
kitt wrote:
> i heard that there is a book which contains the exercise answers for all
> the program projects / exercises in Stroustrup's 'The C++ Programming
> Language'.
>
> i dont have a lot of cash right now and so the last thing i want to do
> is splash out on another pricey book that i dont really need. i have not
> deceded whether i do 'need' this book or not.
>
> my question is has anyone actually read & learnt from the answer book?
> Would i be better off just posting my problems here when i get stuck.?
> or is it worth the investment?
>
> i appreciate your thoughts on this.
>
> thanks
> kitt

I haven't seen this book however IMO it's hard to learn much by reading
an answer book. To use such a book effectively you'd need to at least
make a serious effort at solving the question on your own first. And if
you do this, I think you'll quickly find that you don't much need an
answer book anyway.

Besides there are many C++ gurus here who are happy to answer questions
from those who have made an effort on their own. (Here I speak from my
experience among the latter group, not my membership in the former group :)

Mark
From: Greg Comeau on 12 Oct 2005 14:21
In article <H3c3f.127794$G8.5500(a)text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
kitt <kitt(a)nospamhome.net> wrote:
>i heard that there is a book which contains the exercise answers for all
>the program projects / exercises in Stroustrup's 'The C++ Programming
>Language'.
>
>i dont have a lot of cash right now and so the last thing i want to do
>is splash out on another pricey book that i dont really need. i have not
>deceded whether i do 'need' this book or not.
>
>my question is has anyone actually read & learnt from the answer book?
>Would i be better off just posting my problems here when i get stuck.?
>or is it worth the investment?
>
>i appreciate your thoughts on this.

Do both. Check out http://www.comeaucomputing.com/booklist
and look for Vandervoorde for the latest answer book
(Hansen did the "answer book" for earlier versions of T++CP)
--
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From: Francis Glassborow on 13 Oct 2005 10:11
In article <dijk77$2tf$1(a)panix3.panix.com>, Greg Comeau
<comeau(a)panix.com> writes
>Do both. Check out http://www.comeaucomputing.com/booklist
>and look for Vandervoorde for the latest answer book
>(Hansen did the "answer book" for earlier versions of T++CP)

The Vandervoorde is more than just an answer book but it only deals with
a selection of the problems (we would probably need a book at least
twice the size of TC++PL to cover all the exercises in enough depth to
be useful.


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Francis Glassborow ACCU
Author of 'You Can Do It!' see http://www.spellen.org/youcandoit
For project ideas and contributions: http://www.spellen.org/youcandoit/projects
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