How Not to Program in C++

How Not to Program in C++: 111 Broken Programs and 3 Working Ones, or Why Does 2 + 2 = 5986
I expected many great things from this book. I got mixed results. I usually enjoy figuring out "Bugs of the Day" and the like, but this was book was largely a mix of grading papers from an introductory programming class and debugging buggy programs at work.

Low points:

• Debugging printf format specifiers and forward slash for escaping characters.
• A few fairly long programs with somewhat trivial errors.

High points:

• Bugs encountered as a result of optimizing compilers.
• Exploring of lesser used features of the C/C++ language
• Some interesting puzzles to find where initialization and/or destruction order went wrong.
  

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