This book bored me to tears. It reads like a text book, theres rarely an example. I don't get any explanation of what tools to use, how to set them up, or anything that i can actually work on while reading the book.

For a 'programming book' i felt this fell way short.

I did learn a lot of concepts by reading it, i just didn't learn any real C++ programming techniques, because they didn't give me enough background to get started in any compilers.