Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Not too pleasing

This was used as our primary text book for two semesters of programming. Overall, it was relatively disappointing. The text is a good introductory text, as the reader progresses through the book, harder concepts become poorly explained. For example, his explanation on Object Oriented Programming is subpar. He relies more on definitions and less in explaining them, making abstracting OOP concepts more difficult. If you're new to C++ and have no background in programming, I would recommend this book up and until OOP, for that pick up another book.