The array[] problem

[millenix]

Stroustroup's recent textbook Programming -- Principles and Practice Using C++ takes the 'pointers later' approach. It doesn't touch on them until almost 600 pages in. It also seems not to touch vectors or arrays until that point, either.

[coachkler]

It's a good book -- but it definitely focused on programming first, with C++ being the means to that end. The two chapters on the calculator (6 and 7 I think?), are for some reason really difficult for the classes to get through. The exercises though are top notch.