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Beginning Visual C++ 6

Beginning Visual C++ 6

List Price: $49.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Good book for a beginner
Review: As I read the book, questions were answered as i came up with them. Very informative, explained why things are done, not just telling that is the way it is.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A single volume covers both elementary and advanced topics
Review: If you can only buy one VC++ book, this is the one to get. Ivor Horton writes books in very clear fashion, and it is quite obvious that he put a lot of thoughts in organizing and laying out the programming elements and example codes, so that the readers have good orientation and are able to follow the author throughout the book. These days it's getting more and more impossible to cover both programming fundamentals and advanced features in the same volume, and Visual C++ is the best example of such a complicated programming environment. The fact that this book covers both the C++ language elements and the Visual C++ tool sets (IDE, MFC, Database, OLE/COM, ATL) very well invokes great respect from me. If the author decides to elaborate more and add in extra sections about data structures and class library design issues in the next release, this will become a master tutorial and reference that hardly anyone can beat..

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A nice Visual C++ book for all level programmer.
Review: "BEGINNING Visual C++6" leads you to explore Visual C++ 6 step by step. It not only tell you HOW to do but also show you WHY in windows programming. Advanced topics like OLE server, ActiveX controls are also included. A nice Visual C++ book for all level programmer.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: sloppy, outdated and dilettante book
Review: This book looks like a recycled version of Beginning VC++ 4.0 (or earlier). Nothing about the new intellisense, edit-and-continue or auto-complete features. C++ coverage is outdated and sloppy, major topics like RTTI, namespaces, STL and many others are not discussed at all.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The BEST place to start for VC++ 6
Review: This book is actually 2 books in one cover which can be purchased separately. The first is a tutorial on C++ and the second on Visual C++ and MFC. Even though I have studied C++ a bit I thought I would buy this one for a review (and to cover what I didn't already know).

I found the C++ tutorials to be excellent. Probably the best of any computer related book I've read. I was able to easily follow the topics that were grouped in logical order. All examples were concise and found no errors which weren't immediately obvious.

I've just begun the Visual C++/MFC sections of the book (though I've skimmed it a bit). These look to be a great start with the foundation presented from the previous chapters. This will probably not be your last book on the topic but will certainly get you going in the right direction.

This book has made me seek out other books by Mr. Horton and strongly consider Wrox. The book is pretty big but there's lots of info there and lots of good examples. Even though I'm a programmer by profession, I consider myself a C++ beginner and couldn't imagine a better resource for learning MS Visual C++.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The finest VC++ on the market - a must for beginners!
Review: Fantastic VC++ book. Written in a relaxed style with plenty of examples.

Superb - worth twice the price!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I found the book to be hard to follow and full of errors.
Review: I found this book to be most difficult to follow, and after Ifinally compiled my first program I received error messages that wereindecipherable...

I strongly recommend that you purchase another book, suggestions include Visual C++6 in 24 hours, or Visual C++6 for dummies.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good Intro to C++, but...
Review: As a Windows Programming MCT, I constantly read "Beginner" books to recommend to my students to supplement or provide backgrounders to the Microsoft Official Curriculum.

The book does a pretty good job until you get to Windows programming. Actually I think it's one of the better books to learn the fundamentals of C++ programming.

However, the treatment of structures leaves a little to be desired, with common structures that appear throughout the entire Windows API being glossed over in Chapter 7.

Contrary to several other reviews, the intro to MFC is not that bad, and provides a good background to move on to other texts more devoted to the subject.

ATL should be removed from the text completely. This subject requires a more detailed explanation of COM which is simply not appropriate for a beginers text. My recomendation would be to expand the section on structures in a Windows context.

Also, version 6 of Visual Studio introduced OLE-DB as a solution for Universal Data Access, yet there is no mention of it here. Instead the author has applied a cut and paste from the version 5 of the book to give us ODBC. It would've been more appropriate to mention something about OLE-DB templates, and focus on ADO.

Overall however, this is a book I would recommend for beginners, to continue with Programming Windows with MFC, 2nd Ed by Jeff Proise.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: detailed
Review: I found this book very usefull, detailed and you can use as a reference, the book always reminds you with past experience gained from previous chapters and thus allows you to read a specific topic/chapter. also it demonstrated deep knowledge of the subject covered

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Very Good Book!
Review: I read this book a long time ago, but I remember how good it was. I have to say that there are few authors out there that really know how to keep it interesting, fun, and to the point. This book was a great read! The examples were very clear. There is absolutely no rambling and useless theory. The exercises at the end of the chapters were also a good thing and force you to learn.

I have sampled a few other books on C++ in the past but this book was the best C++ programming book I have found.

If you just want someone to tell you how to program in C++, get this book. If, on the other hand, you want useless theory and/or a long story to explain a simple concept, get a different book.


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