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Summary: Not Good ENOUGH!
Review: A "lot" of pages "wasted" on providing source code for app-winzard generated code. At the same time i donot feel that the style of explaining is appropriate for a beginner to understand.If you value your money donot go for it instead take your chance on "Teach yourself VC in 21 days". I have found invariably all the teach yourself series books to be very good. And afterwards go for the standard David Kruglinski book on windows programming
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Summary: Great overview. Lousy reference
Review: If you want to learn MSVC++ 6 then this is a great book. It's an overview of the entire program. Easy to read, lots of examples. My one complaint is that the lesson format doesn't really lend itself to use as a reference, but I suppose that's not what this book was intended for. I'm also a little skeptical about the section on C++, since there are so many good books already on that subject, but if you're coming from C, it may work for you. Don't worry about the book being a little old, it covers all the bases. Highly recommended!
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Summary: This book was missing in my collection.
Review: Not for beginners as the name suggest.
If you want to learn graphics programming using Visual C++ this
is the right book.
Rich in examples.
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Summary: Not of much worth
Review: Save you money for something better like teach yourself visual c in 21 days. The book is very big in size but that's it. Not much contents in it. It's written for programmers who don't know how to program in C++ and want to do programming in MFC. My advice to such an audience to grab two good books on for C++ programming and one for MFC. Lots of space is wasted with screen shots and cut-copy-paste of App-wizard generated code. Nothing is written on many important things like database connectivity. GUI is explained in detail but many other books cover even this topic in better and SHORTER way. Save you money instead go for this combination; buy first Robert's Lafore's "Object Oriented Programming using Turbo C++" for learning C++ and then buy "special edition using visual C++ 6" or "teach yourself visual C 6 in 21 days" to learn MFC.
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Summary: lots of typos
Review: The book is quite good in terms of how the author presents the topics, as well as his instructions. However, there are a lot of typos. I've read only chapters 11 & 12 and found at least 4 typos already (and I only skimmed through the pages). I don't know how many more I'd find did I read the text word by word. Would recommend this book for a beginner only as far as windows programming and MFC are concerned. An experienced programmer would find this book quite trivial.
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Summary: lots of typos
Review: The book is quite good in terms of how the author presents the topics, as well as his instructions. However, there are a lot of typos. I've read only chapters 11 & 12 and found at least 4 typos already (and I only skimmed through the pages). I don't know how many more I'd find did I read the text word by word. Would recommend this book for a beginner only as far as windows programming and MFC are concerned. An experienced programmer would find this book quite trivial.
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Summary: Great startup book for Visual C++ 6.0!
Review: This book is a must have for anyone who is starting up with Visual C++ 6.0 I had done almost no MFC programming prior to getting this book, and after reading it cover to cover, I have been able to write basic MFC applications. The book is also good at pointing you to the MS Reference CD locations for additional information that isn't covered. Though not a "bible" per se, it is a must have for Visual C++ beginners (you should know C however).
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Summary: Not useful unless you are already very familiar with VC++
Review: This book is certainly not the book you would want to read if you want to actually learn VC++. It gives good introduction to the wizards and new tools provided by VC++ 6.0. However, the book does not explain anything regarding the approach to programming using MFC or VC++ in general. Most of the book is filled with code that is automatically generated by the wizards, and that too without much explanation. The reader would keep on typing code and keep on running the applications successfully without knowing what is happening or why the code is being written the way it is written. Certainly not a book for beginners.
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Summary: An ok book for beginners, but.....
Review: This book is good if you're a beginning C++ programmer or if you're a C programmer with no knowledge of MFC (Microsoft foundation classes). The book is easy to read and the samples work. Most samples follow a "step by step" programming guide. The book is well over 1400 pages, but atleast 600 of them are useless( typical step over pages ). After you have completed a sample the book lists all the code from the sample (with generated MFC code), this listing of code is in my opinion a complete waste. The code can be found on the cd and if you typed the sample you already have all the code. The book doesn't cover anything about COM, oleDB, or ATL which is a little disappointing considering this is a book with over 1400 pages. The editor probably paid the authors for the weight of the book. There are probably better books on VC++.
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Summary: One word: [Junk]
Review: This book is horrible, it is not worth the paper it is written on. They did NOT know how to publish an informative book! Chapter 13 program does NOT even WORK!!! Even on the cd they provide it does NOT compile! Do not waste your money on this book!
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