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Schildt's Advanced Windows 95 Programming in C and C++
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From: "Attila Feher" <attila.fe...@lmf.ericsson.se>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Schildt's Advanced Windows 95 Programming in C and C++
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:09:37 +0300
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Greg P. wrote:
> "Agent Mulder" <mbmulder_remove_th...@home.nl> wrote in message
> news:big5am$n6u$1@news2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl...
>> Wow, does Schildt get negative reviews! Actually in the book
>
> You would be surprised of how many C++ children he has taught wrong.
> The reason why he gets such bad reviews is due to the fact that he
> makes everything look so easy (without explaining the dangers of
> doing things, or why things are done). As the saying goes "You can't
> teach an old dog new tricks", once someone has learned C or C++ by
> his books, they have usually been permanently branded by his bad
> habits. It takes about twice as long as it took you to learn the
> language to unlearn his text and relearn from a better, more approved
> author.
[SNIP]
I can double that. It took over 2 years(!) to get people to omit at least
the most dangerous mistakes they have learnt from the (bull)Schildt C++ book
the (in)complete C++ manual.
--
Attila aka WW
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