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Ivor Horton is one of the preeiminent authors of tutorials on the Java, C and C++ programming languages. He is widely known for the tutorial style of his books, which provides step-by-step guidance easily understood even by first-time programmers. Horton is also a systems consultant in private practice.
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April 03, 2008: ogramming examples should be more simple for the beginer. Eg: use of variable/object/class names that will confuse a beginer. Too much mathematics in examples. You spend more time fiquring out how the mathematics formular is coded into the program, than learning the topic at hand. For example page 280. I needed to learn throwing and catching exceptions, not how many time in minutes it takes for a machine to make a part - based on how many parts it made in an hour. This example include static_cast, arrays and loops. In closing, I picked up a book from the author Herbert Shildt and the example was simple as 1,2,3. Straight to the point...