Should I read S. Rao's C++ book?

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Started learning C++, a friend advised me to start with S. Rao "C++ on my own". I read a third and wondered if this is a normal source. Some say that the manual is "weak" and it is better to start with other books. I'm afraid to take Stroustrup: from my experience in programming, I only have a school Pascal, Schildt is also scolded by everyone, and Laforet seems a little outdated to me. If there is someone who read S. Rao, tell me if this book is normal in order to start learning C ++ from it?

Answer 1

Read a third and can't decide? In my opinion, Dontsova is definitely not worth reading, and books on programming are not plot blockbusters from cover to cover. Read, practice on the go, if it works, you understand, you catch it - move on. If you don't understand, take another book on the subject and read it too. And take the third book, if two are not enough. And along the way, and articles on the topic, see.
Keep in mind that not all technical writers are good teachers. Some lisp too much with the reader, others, on the contrary, do not take into account that their horizons are different, and others simply cannot present the subject normally. Therefore, the reader should himself be a little teacher, thinking for the author through other sources and other ways of presenting the same thing.
My first book was Schildt, but in his manual there was nothing about compilers, about the working environment, about assembly, and I read this dry theory more than once or twice, but the study remained on paper. Some time passed, I got distracted from C ++ in general for basic studies, then I got to Visual Studio 6, or something, to articles, I began to practice, and then I realized that Shield did go through the brains not without trace. Scold him? Well, how many people, so many opinions. He is not a very good teacher, but he expounds the theory correctly. Same here. It depends more on luggage, on other literature.