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Surely there’s no shortage of C++ intro texts. Why write yet another?
I’m glad you asked.
Ever since moving from Pascal to C++ (back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth), I’ve been underwhelmed by available resources. I wanted something quirky and fun to read, with sufficient coverage and fun examples, like the old Oh! Pascal! text by Cooper and Clancy. Even a perfectly accurate text with broad coverage gives you nothing if you fall asleep when you read it. Well, nothing but a sore neck.
But the other reason, of course, is to promote laziness.
We all want our projects to be done more quickly, with less wailing and gnashing of teeth. Sometimes, it’s said, you have to put your nose to the grindstone. Maybe, but I like my nose too well for that. I’d rather do things the easy way.
But the easy way isn’t procrastinating and dragging my feet; it’s to find something I love doing and do it well enough that it feels relatively effortless. It’s producing something robust enough that when it does break down, it tells me exactly what the problem is, so I don’t have to spend a week pleading with it to explain itself. It’s writing code that I can use again and again, adapting it to a new use in hours instead of days.
Here’s what you can expect in this book: