Applications Programming in C++

by Richard Johnsonbaugh, Martin Kalin

Exceptionally organized and beautifully illustrated, this state-of-the-art guide to C++ programming is a must-have for anyone who needs to learn the language. Exploring C++ programming's most useful aspects (as well as some of its more specialized parts), it focuses on using the language to write practical programs based on sound design techniques. Presents the must up-to-date coverage of C++ available - including a full section on STL (standard template library) - and offers many well-constructed examples, useful self-test exercises, beautifully fashioned sample applications, interesting and applicable programming exercises, lists of common programming errors, C++ Postscript sections that explain esoteric and less-used parts of the language, stunning illustrations, and up-to-date features. Includes a supplemental IBM-format program disk; a companion website contains the sourcecode, header files, and data files found on the disk as well as transparencies and an errata list.

Genres: Nonfiction, Programming

744 pages, Paperback

First published October 25, 1998

About the author

Richard F. Johnsonbaugh is an American mathematician and computer scientist. His interests include discrete mathematics and the history of mathematics. He is the author of several textbooks.
Johnsonbaugh earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University, and then moved to the University of Oregon for graduate study. He completed his Ph.D. at Oregon in 1969. His dissertation, I. Classical Fundamental Groups and Covering Space Theory in the Setting of Cartan and Chevalley; II. Spaces and Algebras of Vector-Valued Differentiable Functions, was supervised by Bertram Yood. He also has a second master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He is currently professor emeritus at De Paul University.

Reviews

[William Schram · Rating 4 out of 5]

C++ is a programming language that utilizes Object-Oriented Programming. I have one issue with the book, but it is severe. The book may be too old to be practical. The book's publication date was 1999, and contains many callbacks. If you look at the back, there is an image of a webpage circa 1999, and it took me back 25 years.

Another problem is that the book doesn't say which compiler it covers. The book does state that it was up to date in 1999, but I am not a historian, and I would need to look up what version was current back then.

On the other hand, the book is well-written. It explains the ideas and then provides sample snippets of code for applications. It covers making a Calendar, the Monty Hall Problem, and more.

I enjoyed the book despite the issues. Thanks for reading my review, and see you next time.