Programming with Qt

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Summary: Easy C++ GUIs with qt
Review: Easy reading introduction into GUI programming with qt in C++. The book focuses on qt without applying C++ exception handling or the standard template library. It also does not explain too deeply the workings behind qt's callback system, but just, how to use it. After reading the book I could immediately make a GUI on Linux. Earlier it took me much longer to do the same thing with Motif. The qdesigner which comes with qt2.2.0 takes away a lot of work. The book also explaines other capabilities of qt than the GUI main topic (e.g. socket handling class, qt container classes, etc.). The help pages of the new qdesigner will also help one in applying the teaching of this book.

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Summary: Needs more depth
Review: I found this book to be clearly written, and not difficult to follow and succinct, and not sufficient to answer enough of my programming questions to feel comfortable creating my own programs. You definitely need to study the Troll Tech-provided documentation to go very far beyond the book in programming, but the documentation reads like it was written as a reference, for people who understand but simply need a reminder. The book needs about two hundred more pages explaining examples and critical subjects like slot-signal interactions, layouts and many of the widgets more completely.

This book makes a good overview, but needs more depth. At the time, it was about the only book available, so I cannot say that it was a mistake to get the book when I did. I hope that other books coming out on Qt have more depth and more complete explanations.

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Summary: Out of date, LOTS OF ERRORS, not enough depth
Review: This book was useful to me as at the time there really were not other QT books except TrollTech's Website. However, beware of this book. It has MANY MANY typos and major mistakes, many of which are in the programming examples.

As a good typist, I generally like to type in programming examples as it makes me read and think about the code - rather than just blindingly copying it. Beware, there are MANY mistakes in the source code. Several do NOT compile! I spent a long time finding mistakes. I even sent the fixes to the author and the publisher. They thanked me the first few times, and then never replied to my later postings. You figure they would have appreciated all of them AND should have pointed out other mistakes before I ran into them (since others must have pointed out these mistakes as well).

Even though signals/slots are covered these are SUCH a LARGE component of Qt that the book does not even begin to really discuss the complexities of them enough. To be fair, the author points this out, but to not deal in detail with signals/slots when learning Qt is a big handicap. Not dealing with signals/slots in detail with LOTS of EXAMPLES is sort of a cop-out.

Rating:
Summary: Out of date, LOTS OF ERRORS, not enough depth
Review: This book was useful to me as at the time there really were not other QT books except TrollTech's Website. However, beware of this book. It has MANY MANY typos and major mistakes, many of which are in the programming examples.

As a good typist, I generally like to type in programming examples as it makes me read and think about the code - rather than just blindingly copying it. Beware, there are MANY mistakes in the source code. Several do NOT compile! I spent a long time finding mistakes. I even sent the fixes to the author and the publisher. They thanked me the first few times, and then never replied to my later postings. You figure they would have appreciated all of them AND should have pointed out other mistakes before I ran into them (since others must have pointed out these mistakes as well).

Even though signals/slots are covered these are SUCH a LARGE component of Qt that the book does not even begin to really discuss the complexities of them enough. To be fair, the author points this out, but to not deal in detail with signals/slots when learning Qt is a big handicap. Not dealing with signals/slots in detail with LOTS of EXAMPLES is sort of a cop-out.

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Summary: Good addition, but short on pithy examples
Review: This is indeed a very good book but it can't compete with Solin's "Qt Programming" (published by Sams) as an introduction (at least not in it's present 1st edition..perhaps the soon to be published 2nd edition will be such an improvement that this situation will change, but I think that's unlikely). Depending on your budget and the improvements that come into edition 2, this is a worthwhile addition to any Qt programmer's bookshelf.

The main weakness of the book is the shortage of succinct and simple examples that illustrate the various Qt classes and concepts. (This is where Solin, on the other hand excels). There is one hefty example (Qtscribble) that is presented in various versions in the chapters 2 and 3. The rest of the book presents only code snippets and (worthwhile) discussions. Edition 1 is also quite outdated so waiting for edition 2 is very advisable.

Rating:
Summary: Good addition, but short on pithy examples
Review: This is indeed a very good book but it can't compete with Solin's "Qt Programming" (published by Sams) as an introduction (at least not in it's present 1st edition..perhaps the soon to be published 2nd edition will be such an improvement that this situation will change, but I think that's unlikely). Depending on your budget and the improvements that come into edition 2, this is a worthwhile addition to any Qt programmer's bookshelf.

The main weakness of the book is the shortage of succinct and simple examples that illustrate the various Qt classes and concepts. (This is where Solin, on the other hand excels). There is one hefty example (Qtscribble) that is presented in various versions in the chapters 2 and 3. The rest of the book presents only code snippets and (worthwhile) discussions. Edition 1 is also quite outdated so waiting for edition 2 is very advisable.