I must say that I absolutely loved this book and now I have to buy a copy for myself. (I borrowed it from a friend.) It's very resourceful and Oualline combines useful technical details with a friendly sense of writing, thus keeping the focus on *practical* C++ programming.

As far as previously mentioned typographical errors, I'd just like to point readers to the beloved preface which states

"Computer languages are best learned by writing and *debugging* programs. Sweating over a broken program at two o'clock in the morning only to find that you typed = where you should have typed == is a very effective teaching tool. Many programming examples are used throughout this book. Most of them contain deliberate errors. you are encouraged to enter the examples into 6your computer and the run and debug them This process introduces you to common errors using short programs so you will know how to spot and correct such errors in your own larger progams." (xvi, "Practical C++ Programming")

Thank you,
Ryan