[TriLUG] Older Programming books vs Modern Programming books

[Peter Neilson]

On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:26:08 -0400, Warren Myers <volcimaster at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Even now I have some not-as-good-as-I-expected books on my shelves  
> because I'm a little embarrassed I spent the money on them and don't  
> want to
> throw/give them away because of it.

Not a new phenomenon. I am reminded of a review of a lousy textbook  
(spectroscopy, I think) from around 1967 that said, "This book fills a  
much-needed gap in the literature."

I own a C++ textbook from about 15 years ago that commits the sin of being  
descriptive rather than instructive. It tells you things that are true,  
but does not tell you what you need to know to acquire the OO approach to  
C++ that the title suggests is within.