C++ Programming: Program Design Including Data Structures, Third Edition

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Intended for a two-semester course covering CS1 and CS2 topics, this text contains numerous clear and complete explanations and examples. With a strong focus on problem-solving, the book offers comprehensive coverage of introductory C++ programming topics and then moves the students confidently into more advanced concepts. Each chapter contains classroom-tested pedagogical features, including full-color code and comments, syntax boxes with explanation and examples, and complete programming exercises. All programs and exercises have been quality assurance tested with Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, available as an optional compiler with the text.

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Learn by example, taken to the extreme.......2007-06-12

By about page 689 I had read the word "suppose" once too often. Mr. Malik's coherence fell apart when he got to the object-oriented stuff, and he started to use examples to *start* explanations. His meandering paragraphs begun with the word "suppose" are generally not helpful. Don't let chapter 12 (Inheritance and composition) discourage you, though. It's the worst of them and it gets better after that.

If you like to highlight your textbooks you will be frustrated by this book. You will spend a lot of time pondering if you really want to highlight an entire 12-line paragraph when what is explained could be stated in a single sentence. So, here's a hint: Read each section between the purple headings through before highlighting anything. Sometimes you'll find your concise sentence further on. If you don't, make use of the white space to write one yourself. This will aid in memory, and save your highlighter.

This should have been a shorter book, and the object-oriented stuff should have received some editing for clearer, more concise language.

The example code is redundant and the explanations unnecessarily long. Each problem is exhaustively set up and explained, with code segments that are duplicated in the finalized code. You'll find yourself skipping the setup of the problem and going right to the finalized code to see if you understand it, and invariably you will, because it is not complex. The examples are uninteresting and demonstrate things that are simple.

One really nice feature of this book? You don't have to get 300 pages into it before it will lie flat on your desk. It stays open nicely and has bright, white pages.

A summary of the contents:

One chapter on computers, programming languages, the process of writing a program, and a description of and background on C++.

Almost six hundred pages on non-object-oriented C++ language stuff. It does not assume you already know programming. Tiringly verbose, but seems comprehensive and well-organized.

About 350 pages on the object-oriented features of C++. It's not difficult material but it's not explained coherently. If this is the stuff you are most interested in you will be disappointed.

About 300 pages on applying C++ to algorithms, such as searching and sorting, liked lists and binary trees. Classic first-year CS course material. Perhaps the best-presented part of the book.

A chapter on the Standard Template Library.

Terrible introductory book.......2007-03-20

This is my first review of any book after buying many books from Amazon over the years. Generally I find reviews helpful when considering purchases, but I always take them with a grain of salt and supplement it with my own research before making a buying decision. I'm writing this review because I had such a negative experience with this book.

A little background on myself. I'm a self-taught programmer mostly working commercially in Visual Basic for the past 7 years. I've also done a lot of studying in C and C++, and recently decided to get a B.S. degree to further my career. My first course was programming fundamentals, and the textbook couldn't have been worse. I already knew much of the information covered in the first half of this tome, but I can honestly say it was poorly presented _to the beginning programming_ student. I'm not saying Malik doesn't know what he's talking about, I'm saying he tried to present C++ fundamentals to the absolute beginner and did a poor job of it. The first half of this book should have been cut, and the second half made its own book and be used in an intermediate course.

He repeats himself ad nauseum. Some might argue this is an effective teaching tool, however he goes to great lengths to repeat himself on even the most easy to understand concepts. The end result is you feel like you're swimming upstream making no progress, and I don't say this because I already know the basics. He takes pages and pages to explain even the most simple concepts to the point where you get frustrated and start to speed read or skip portions just to slog through the chapter. There is a word for this style of writing, it is called prolix.

The example programs were also poorly thought out. True, they make use of topics covered in the chapter (as any example ought to), but the "problems" (from a very high level view, all computer programs can be classified as solving one or more problems) they attempt to solve are the most mundane, boring examples imaginable. I can't see how any beginning CS student would want to keep programming after seeing the types of programs written in these examples. They could come away with the idea that all programs are like this. First of all, they are far removed from any real-world program. This is partly a consequence of GUI and platform dependent programming being an intermediate to advanced topic (at least in C++). Because of that, the examples should have been the bare minimum necessary to show how the chapter's topics are used. Instead, they go on and on at great length with a huge problem which incidently makes use of the chapter's topics instead of coming up with a program that actually does anything useful. And if a program is useful, it just might be interesting. If it's interesting, the student just might learn more! Keeping the student interested in the topic is by far a better approach to teaching than just repeating yourself and using boring examples. In all fairness, many programming books also take this (bad) approach, but Malik's book overdoes it.

Unfortunately, my school required this textbook for the C++ classes so I did not have any choice but to buy this book. If, however, you have the freedom to choose your own C++ text, I encourage you to look elsewhere. Unfortunately I don't have any other texts that I've read and could recommend.

Find another book. Not for a beginner. .......2007-03-06

This book doesn't flow at all. It is hard to follow along. I am a beginner and this book almost has turned me off from programming all together. I recommended looking for another book.

This book explains things very well..........2006-05-01

I am used to reading Deitel programming textbooks. They pack a lot of info into their books, but they really overwhelm you and don't explain things as well and thoroughly as this book does. I was a little disappointed at first when I learned that we wouldn't be using Deitel's C++ textbook, but this book quickly won me over.

Good Book for a beginner.......2003-05-29

I recommend this book for anyone new to C++ or migrating from C to C++ (although it covers advanced topics as well like STL). I found it better than other books like "Sams Teach yourself C++ in 21 days". The book also has its own website and some stuff on that as well.
It has worked out problems at the end of each chapter which illustrate whatever was taught in that particular chapter. I especially liked the lucid explanation about each topic with relevant examples.

Data Structures in C++ Including Breadth and Laboratories

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Data Structures in C++ Including Breadth and Laboratories
Angela B. Shiflet
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Data Structures in C++ Including Breadth and Laboratories integrates laboratory exercises, problem-solving skills, and breadth sections covering non-programming aspects of computer science into the study of data structures. An appendix on non-object-oriented features of C++ helps students froma C background get up to speed, and Chapter 4 presents the aspects of OOP in C++ that students need in studying data structures. Other aids to learning include Programming Projects, over 1,000 exercises, and numerous figures. Laboratory programs and data files, data structure implementations, and program examples from the text are available via the World Wide Web.

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Challenging - Missing Web Address.......2000-11-12

cout < < "This book requires the use of files located on the Publishers WebSite, ALL of the laboratory assignments require them, unfortunately they never give you the website. This text is somewhat disjointed and explanations do not flow well." <

Need the World Wide Web address.......2000-02-07

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A critical look at over 80 years of conflict, collusion, and corruption between financiers and politicians
Undue Influence paints a vivid portrait of the dealings between "the few", in this case members of Congress, the banking community, and the Fed, and sheds light on how radical new deregulatory measures could be introduced by unelected officials and then foisted upon Congress in the name of progress. In the process, the background of the new financial elite is examined-because they are markedly different than their predecessors of the 1920s and 1930s. Undue Influence also brings readers up to speed on other important issues, including how the financial elite has been able to perpetuate itself, how the markets lend themselves to these special interest groups, and how it is possible that after 80 years of financial regulation and regulatory bodies the same problems of financial malfeasance and fraud still plague the markets.
Charles R. Geisst (Oradell, NJ) is the author of 15 books, including Wheels of Fortune (0-471-47973-X), Deals of the Century (0-471-26397-4) and the bestsellers Wall Street: A History and 100 Years of Wall Street. Geisst has taught both political science and finance, worked in banking and finance on Wall Street and in London, as well as consulted. His articles have been published in the International Herald Tribune, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Newsday, Wall Street Journal, and Euromoney.

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Sketchy.......2005-10-07

Undue Influence would seem to have a couple things going for it: the book jacket claims that Charles Geisst is a best selling author of fifteen books. It covers an important and timely topic: the history of securities regulation, from the Crash of the 20s to the dot-bomb implosion of 2000. But it appears to have been rushed to print. There are parts of the book that are clear and informative, but there's also a lot of bloated and murky prose that should have been edited out.

The Introduction illustrates the faults of the whole book: the first sentence is strong and vivid, but in the following paragraphs, the writing breaks into cliches, mixed metaphors (a cornerstone of the safety net?), vague generalizations, and outright typos and grammatical mistakes.

The index is likewise sketchy. The term 'bucket shop' appears early, without explanation. The index lists only one occurrence, on page 155, well after the term first appears, and the term is not defined there, either.

I looked for the Acknowledgements to learn who edited this (or failed to), but there are no Acknowledgements - maybe no one wants to be associated with this rush job.

If you aren't already familiar with the history of securities regulation, look elsewhere for a good book on this topic.

Great background for regulation/deregulation.......2005-02-09

Professor Geisst has done a great job of making all of the confusion about the regulation and deregulation of Wall Street and the banks clearer. His account of the trend toward freeing the banks from the 1930's laws is very valuable because it shows the behind the secenes working of the different interested parties. The whole debate is part of the larger movement toward reinterpreting the past in a more conservative fashion and I found the book interesting for that reason alone. Reading this, I get the impression that conservatives reacted toward deregulation in the 1980s as strongly as the radicals did for regulation in the 1930s but the major difference was that the old regulations at least responded to a crisis, trying to fix it. The same cannot be said of the free market movement of the recent period. I found this book very vaulable.

UNDUE INFLUENCE: HOW THE WALL STREET ELITE PUTS THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM AT RISK

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This book is written from the perspective of a practising company lawyer and is principally concerned with two broad duties owed by directors of British and Australian companies: to act honestly, in good faith and for proper purposes, and to exercise care and diligence. Public attitudes towards directors have altered since the mid-1980s, and the business community has raised its expectations of directors. In response to this shift in public feeling, parliament and the judiciary are adopting a new approach to directors' duties, widening the scope of duties imposed on directors and encouraging a more rigorous approach to corporate governance. Directors' Duties analyses this new approach, with reference to recent English and Australian case-law, and explores the courts' attempts to deal with the myriad of competing interests found within the morass of legal rules, equitable principles and statutory enactment which comprise modern company law. In examining the latest case-law and legislation, the author addresses some of the more contentious and controversial issues which directors in the 21st century will need to confront in order to properly discharge the legal, equitable and statutory requirements of their office. The subject of directors' duties is of considerable theoretical and practical importance, from economic, political as well as social perspectives. This unique and important work will be of great value to all lawyers, policymakers, academics and researchers working in this complex and rapidly changing field of the law.

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This comprehensive text describes the fundamentals of x-ray multiple-wave interaction in crystals and its applications in condensed matter physics and crystallography. It covers current theoretical approaches and application methods for many materials, including macromolecular crystals, thin films, semiconductors, quasicrystals and nonlinear optical materials. x-ray optics is also addressed. Designed primarily as a reference for researchers in condensed matter, crystallography, materials science, and synchrotron-related topics, the book will also be useful as a textbook for graduate and senior-year undergraduate courses on special topics in x-ray diffraction.

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It's not just another midnight....

Celebrate the start of something new with

In One Year and Out the Other

...a sparkling New Year's Eve story collection by today's rising fiction stars!

Cara Lockwood puts self-improvement to the test with 528 rules to live by -- not least of which is "Do not sleep with married men" -- in "Resolved: A New Year's Resolution List"...

Pamela Redmond Satran instructs a single mom in the fine art of partying like the boys (have lots of sex, don't worry that you're too fat) in "How to Start the New Year Like a Guy"...

Eileen Rendahl shows a twentysomething why there's more to life than waiting by the phone for a New Year's date in "Expecting a Call"...

Megan McAndrew seizes the day -- or just a very special one-night stand -- for a single food stylist

and more great tales from

Kathleen O'Reilly, Beth Kendrick, Diane Stingley, Tracy McArdle, and Libby Street

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Some good stories.......2005-05-25

I thought this short story collection was better than "American Girls About Town," also from Downtown Press. Here are my favorite stories from "In One Year and Out the Other", in no particular order:

Beth Kendrick, "The Bad Breakup Regime": This is a fun story about a man and a woman who seclude themselves and eat Doritos while watching bad television, after the woman's boyfriend leaves her for the man's girlfriend. After sulking for a few months, they whip themselves into the best shape possible so they can hold their heads high at the company New Year's Eve party. Both women work there and all four of the main characters show up at the party, with some surprising results.

Cara Lockwood, "Resolved: A New Year's Resolution List": this story is about Megan, who was dating a married man until recently, and has now drawn up a 600-item resolution list to "improve herself." This story has surprising emotional depth, but is still funny, as Megan deals with group therapy ("this is a safe space") and new love.

Pamela Redmond Satran, "How To Start the New Year Like a Guy": this is about a married woman who decides to act more like a guy in a number of ways. Maybe not surprisingly, she gets her husband to act more like a girl.

Diane Stingley, "Expecting a Call": this was a good story about a woman who's waiting to hear from a guy who got her number at a party. He never calls, but the woman does receive visits from 3 ghosts who give her surprising insight into herself. Sort of a modern-day Scrooge tale about New Year's Eve instead of Christmas.

In One Year... and I Want Another!!!.......2005-01-26

This book wasn't thought of as being done in short stories when purchased. I was highly pleased though! Almost every story ended up having a little piece of me in it... either something I had once done, same situation happened to me, same scenario. You get the picture. I completely related to this book. Not only did each and every author achieve a portion of me within their novelettes, but also they gave me a chance to branch out to other writing styles and new authors. I HIGHLY recommend this book!! It truly makes a person understand that everything happens for a reason.... and leaves you feeling like a new person inside and out.

fine chick lit anthology .......2005-01-24

This nine tale chick lit anthology is overall an entertaining relatively strong collection. Each tale is well written with none disastrous and a third really superb. Especially enticing are entries by sub-genre favorites Cara Lockwood, Beth Kendrick, and Diane Stingley. Though this reviewer holds a prejudicial belief that that the short story is the perfect medium for this milieu, sub-genre fans including those who prefer novels will appreciate this collection. This reviewer's New Year resolution is to try to read books in a timelier manner. Still better late than never, fans will toast the authors of this delightful lighthearted anthology, which holds up for any holiday as the characters and their respective relationships make for a fun read in time for Valentine's Day.

Harriet Klausner

A very happy New Year indeed.......2005-01-16

Reading this book just puts you in the New Years mood! Seriously - when you read it, you're going to want to pop open a bottle of champagne and celebrate with everyone in sight!

This was an awesome anthology, though as with all anthologies, some stories were better than others. The best ones were probably Cara Lockwood's story which focuses on a girl trying to get over an affair she had with a married man, and also Libby Street's, which deals with a one night stand and not recognizing the guy in her bed the next morning. Makes me excited to read her upcoming debut novel.

On the lamer side were stories like "The Future of Sex" which is basically about a woman who decides she should get artificial inseminated because she wants a baby. But even though some of the stories were worse than others, none were actually BAD, they just weren't ones I'd read again.

So I'd say that every woman should get a book like this, and when the new year comes around again, you'll be prepared to celebrate weeks early and can begin celebrating while reading this in bed.

Wonderful short stories to start the year or any time.......2005-01-12

I am usually not a fan of short stories and did not realize that is what this book was until I received it as a gift, but was pleasantly surprised. I loved the novelettes, or short stories. They were fun to read, and gave me exposure to authors I have not read before. I was familiar with Cara Lockwood and Pamela Satran, but others were new treats to explore. I highly recommend this as a light, fun read. Now I am off to explore the other novels of these clever women. Enjoy!!

In One Year and Out the Other: Poems at the Turnings.

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In One Year and Out the Other: Poems at the Turnings.
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In one year and out the other.(medical laboratory organizations new year resolutions)(Editorial): An article from: Medical Laboratory Observer

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People of the year: they range in age from 24 to 70. Some were arrested while fighting for equality. Others broke the rules by speaking out when no one ... (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

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This digital document is an article from The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine), published by Thomson Gale on January 16, 2007. The length of the article is 2628 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Problem solved: in four years, one Boston school nearly doubled its passing rate in math. Find out how they did it.: An article from: District Administration

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Problem solved: in four years, one Boston school nearly doubled its passing rate in math. Find out how they did it.: An article from: District Administration
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