I actually took a C++ programming course at the University of Texas at Dallas 3 years ago which used this book as it's main text book, and the course was actually taught by the author himself. It was, coincidentally, the last course Prof. Heller ever taught at UTD since he resigned after reading the students reactions to the course(but not before changing our final exam to reflect his angst).
The book was just too simplified to act effectively as a teaching tool, not to mention most of the examples in the book require the use of a class library written by it's auther. When given programming assignments outside the scope of the text, most of the students failed miserably since the book in no way explained how to do anything other than write the included programs. These were straight up Junior and Senior level Computer Science major who had experience programming in other language such as Pascal and Assembler, yet none of them, myself included, left the class with any sense of competence with the C language. If this is how well the book works in a class taught by the Author himself, I imagine it could only be worse when used on your own.
Disclaimer: Yes, I might be a bit biased against the author and his book as a result of his unethical response(i.e. changing the final exam, telling us he was resigning, basic whimpering and whining) to poor student evaluations, but the poor evaluations were deserved and reflected both the quality of the profesor and the learning materials(i.e. 'Who's Afraid of C++'). In all honesty, I'm a bit surprised this book is still in print.
Check out this site for some specs on a digital camera which uses minidiscs to store your photos.
For fans of the minidisc such as myself seems like a much better idea. Minidiscs are smaller, have protective cases built right in and are proven portable recordable technology.
Too bad all the good minidisc stuff is only available in Japan.
TK
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Of course it helps unknown aritists by giving them an outlet for their music.
I am a frequent Napster user and I will hunt people's libraries for anything that sounds new or interesting. My hotlist has grown very long as I find people with similar musical tastes to mine, and since I can download a song and check it out for free, I have been able to find plenty of new musicians and DJ's I never would have heard of otherwise. Admitedly, most of these musicians might have record deals already but since I don't see them on MTV or hear them on my local corporate controlled radio station I would never of heard of them, let alone bought their CD's if not for Napster.
It's important to remember that we live in a capitalist society and money can find another outlet.
Part of the reason Microsoft has any competition at all is due to the growing number of customers who do not appreciate either the quality of Microsoft's product or Microsoft's tyrannical corporate culture.
As Microsoft's explotation of it's customers increases, they will begin to push more people out of the MS fold and into alternitives. Once an average user gets burnt by a copyrighted version of MSWord, a Corel product will suddenly have a bit more appeal.
Abuse of customers leads to the creation of Alternatives. Look at the artificialy elevated price of CD's and the emergence of Napster. Consumer's will find a better deal if you fleece them too much.
Let Microsoft shoot themselves in the foot and all hail copy protection! One reason Linux is getting so much press now days is simply because people are finally getting fed up with MS. Microsoft is simply adding more fuel to a fire which is finally starting to burn them.
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I actually took a C++ programming course at the University of Texas at Dallas 3 years ago which used this book as it's main text book, and the course was actually taught by the author himself. It was, coincidentally, the last course Prof. Heller ever taught at UTD since he resigned after reading the students reactions to the course(but not before changing our final exam to reflect his angst).
The book was just too simplified to act effectively as a teaching tool, not to mention most of the examples in the book require the use of a class library written by it's auther. When given programming assignments outside the scope of the text, most of the students failed miserably since the book in no way explained how to do anything other than write the included programs. These were straight up Junior and Senior level Computer Science major who had experience programming in other language such as Pascal and Assembler, yet none of them, myself included, left the class with any sense of competence with the C language. If this is how well the book works in a class taught by the Author himself, I imagine it could only be worse when used on your own.
Disclaimer: Yes, I might be a bit biased against the author and his book as a result of his unethical response(i.e. changing the final exam, telling us he was resigning, basic whimpering and whining) to poor student evaluations, but the poor evaluations were deserved and reflected both the quality of the profesor and the learning materials(i.e. 'Who's Afraid of C++'). In all honesty, I'm a bit surprised this book is still in print.
Check out this site for some specs on a digital camera which uses minidiscs to store your photos.
For fans of the minidisc such as myself seems like a much better idea. Minidiscs are smaller, have protective cases built right in and are proven portable recordable technology.
Too bad all the good minidisc stuff is only available in Japan.
TKOf course it helps unknown aritists by giving them an outlet for their music.
I am a frequent Napster user and I will hunt people's libraries for anything that sounds new or interesting. My hotlist has grown very long as I find people with similar musical tastes to mine, and since I can download a song and check it out for free, I have been able to find plenty of new musicians and DJ's I never would have heard of otherwise. Admitedly, most of these musicians might have record deals already but since I don't see them on MTV or hear them on my local corporate controlled radio station I would never of heard of them, let alone bought their CD's if not for Napster.
It's important to remember that we live in a capitalist society and money can find another outlet.
Part of the reason Microsoft has any competition at all is due to the growing number of customers who do not appreciate either the quality of Microsoft's product or Microsoft's tyrannical corporate culture.
As Microsoft's explotation of it's customers increases, they will begin to push more people out of the MS fold and into alternitives. Once an average user gets burnt by a copyrighted version of MSWord, a Corel product will suddenly have a bit more appeal.
Abuse of customers leads to the creation of Alternatives. Look at the artificialy elevated price of CD's and the emergence of Napster. Consumer's will find a better deal if you fleece them too much.
Let Microsoft shoot themselves in the foot and all hail copy protection! One reason Linux is getting so much press now days is simply because people are finally getting fed up with MS. Microsoft is simply adding more fuel to a fire which is finally starting to burn them.