training and tutorials

I bought this product thinking it would just be a quick intro to C++. It is a full course in C & C++, but written in 1997! The authors assume you have full access to development tools on a Unix machine to test the code, and the Java interface is very [poor] (program interface goes blank if another window covers it, difficult to recover from at first). You'd think they'd do the interface in C++ if they're such wizards.

Add to that they (obviously) do not take into account any of the advances in either the language, operating systems or the hardware over the last 5+ years and you've got a fairly useles (for learning, anyhow) product.

Keep away unless you really want to throw money away (might I suggest a worthy charity instead?), or just want it for historical reasons!

One word: wow. This is an amazing tool for the beginners. This has helped me so much and I reccomend this product to everyone who wants to learn how to program!