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Summary: Tedious
Review: Slow moving and tedious. Too much code reuse reprinting the same large selections with only minor changes. I think Schildt is a good writer... of prose that is, but the reason he is an author is that the can't program very well, as far as I can tell.
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Summary: Stay away from this series
Review: The biggest problem with this book is that it's ugly. No, not just ugly, but the typeface chosen is too large and very difficult to read. It doesn't matter that the material is good if I can't stand to read the book. What's hard about reading it? The type is too large and heavy, and you can't quickly scan the pages, you have to read letter by letter to make the words.
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Summary: Stay away from this series
Review: The biggest problem with this book is that it's ugly. No, not just ugly, but the typeface chosen is too large and very difficult to read. It doesn't matter that the material is good if I can't stand to read the book. What's hard about reading it? The type is too large and heavy, and you can't quickly scan the pages, you have to read letter by letter to make the words.
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Summary: Finally getting the basics
Review: The book is slimmed down and to the point. The author is a teacher, and instead of slamming you with the whole weight of Microsoft's vast accumulation, he leads you on a path of safety that goes right down the middle of the Windows programming landscape. You wind up knowing what you are doing (at last). The rest of the huge pile of messy parts and gadgets that make up MFC and the API, you can look up in other reference books as you need them, without getting snowed under.
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Summary: Really "from the Ground" - but not really "Up"
Review: This book introduces you the really grounds of MFC programming. It explains the basic concepts in a very clear and understandable way. However a bit more advanced or complex topics are either missed out or discribed confusing, impossible to understand from this book (I mainly mean the section about ActiveX Controls). So if you'd like to learn what MFC is, this book gives you a good basic introduction, but if you'd like to get an at least medium level MFC programming knowlegde, - well, try to find a much better publication.
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Summary: A good book to understand MFC
Review: This is a book among the others that *does not only* show you how the use the wizards. It tells you step by step, in a very clear manner the underlying structure of MFC. The author starts with a very simple program, using the most simple MFC component. It then add more and more controls to that simple program, and give you very clear concept of what is going on behind the scene. This book is an excellent one for those who want to learn MFC without any previous knowledge.
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Summary: Great book for Windows beginners
Review: This is a GREAT book for anyone who is new to the MFC (but already has a thorough grounding in C++). I am glad that, unlike some other books, this one did not rely on the Visual C++ wizards. It shows you HOW the MFC works, so that when you do use the wizards you know what is going on.
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Summary: Very good starting book on MFC
Review: This is a very good introduction book on MFC, but there is a lot more to MFC then what this book covered. Programming Windows With MFC by Jeff Prosise is even a better book. After reading this book you can get a lot more understanding and insight from Prosise book. Both these books make a great two volume for any beginner.
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Summary: Great book for beginners
Review: This is definitely a must for beginners. It doesn't emphasize any of the Visual C++ wizards so beginners can completely understand how to build MFC programs. Wizards come in handy only after you learn the basics, and this book does that.
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Summary: A good introduction to MFC
Review: This is my 2nd Schildt computer book. The first was "Teach Yourself C++" 2nd edition, Osborne. The best thing about Herb Schildt's books is what they are NOT:If you are looking to be amazed and astounded by oh-so-clever-and-arcane C coding, then this is not the book for you. If you are fond of trouble-shooting 2 or 3 typos on each demo program, a Schildt book will disappoint. (BTW, it also makes it perfectly clear where the responsibility for these abominations lie: not with the publisher, not with the transcriber, but squarely on the author. I have a dozen computer books that I can't donate to the public library because of the amusing [but not at the time!] profanities with which I have decorated the margins.) Mr. Schildt's books allow me plow steadily, at my snail's pace, without trying to decipher impenetrable code with which the author has tried to impress me with how brilliant he is. I do not care how brilliant the author may be, but only that he can teach me what I desire to know. Schildt TEACHES pedantically and never confuses me more than I deserve. I feel I am much better-armed to attack/modify the Visual C++ Wizards output after reading this book. The only disappoinment that I encountered was the absence of instructions on MFC file handling (sigh). Back to fighting the Wizards.
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