Although I have numerous other ORA books and enjoy them thoroughly, I must say that this book was not at all helpful. I feel that the primary problem with the text is that it did not give a good explanation about how to program in C++. Yes it does explain how various features of the language work, but now how to implement them. The examples given were limited in scope and little explanation was given about how object oriented programming is really done.

I would recommend to anyone planning to learn how to write C++ code and how to work with objects to read Bruce Eckel’s "Thinking in C++" rather than this book. Mr. Eckel distributes his book for free at http://www.bruceeckel.com/ .