C++ Interactive Training Course best 9.7

Based on their best-selling C++ tutorial, Deitel and Deitels C++ Interactive Training Course repackages their comprehensive tour of C and C++ into several dozen simple and digestible online lessons. While some electronics books suffer when translated into hypertext, this CD-ROM version actually makes the material more accessible for any beginning or intermediate C/C++ programmer. The online viewer (which uses Java) organizes the original books information into sections that cover basic and advanced topics, first in C and then in C++. Not only will you learn the fundamentals but chapters on using objects and C++ templates show off advanced features too. With hypertext links to all sample code, programming tips, and hundreds of exercises, this electronic version takes a rather dense printed book and makes it more streamlined. The electronic version lets the reader choose what makes the most sense. No longer is the reader confronted with dozens of quotes from historical figures, for instance, as in the printed book. Here, you can get this material via a button if you want it and safely ignore it otherwise. A winning feature here is that each programming example is made available in a window so that you can cut and paste code into your own projects. You can even run the sample code automatically from within the viewer and examine the output. Naturally, you can search and cross-reference topics via extensive hypertext links. In all, the C++ Interactive Training Course makes an excellent choice for anyone who wants to learn C/C++ in an engaging, well-planned, and thorough online tutorial. --Richard Dragan