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Summary: It's about time.
Review: Finally, a thorough book on the use of Visual C++'s Debugger. This book will take you through the essentials of optimization, debugging inline assembly code, dealing with MFC, and goes on to discuss repairing errors in STL code. If you want to get the most out of the debugger in Visual C++, you must have this book!
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Summary: Beyond me
Review: I am fairly new to C++ programming. I bought the authors book, Visual C++ 6 and have been working throught that book. That book was excellant, and I wrote a review for it.This book is really beyond my present capabilities. I gave it a high rating because I can understand what the authors are trying to impart in terms of writing code and finding problems. It is just that I'm not writing that kind of code yet. What I really liked about the book is the presentation style. They seem to be taking real life problems (see parts that refer to student problems) and showing you how to find solutions.
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Summary: Beyond me
Review: I am fairly new to C++ programming. I bought the authors book, Visual C++ 6 and have been working throught that book. That book was excellant, and I wrote a review for it. This book is really beyond my present capabilities. I gave it a high rating because I can understand what the authors are trying to impart in terms of writing code and finding problems. It is just that I'm not writing that kind of code yet. What I really liked about the book is the presentation style. They seem to be taking real life problems (see parts that refer to student problems) and showing you how to find solutions.
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Summary: By By Bug
Review: I have programmed in C for 5 years and now C++ for 4 years. I make my living at this. I have run into some really nasty bugs. I bought this book with the hopes that it could help me out with a numeric precision problem I was having on a project. The book did just that! Using an example in the book, I located the problem then took the steps to fix it. Killed that bug! The book is well worth the money if it helps you locate just one problem!
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Summary: Richard Sternberg
Review: I have taken over five C++ classes from introductory to advanced. None of those classes ever taught me the essential information contained in this book. It is great, but it is not a book to be taken lightly. You have to get into Chapter 1 and stay with it to the end. When you get there you won't regret the journey. One of the best books these authors have done!!!!!
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Summary: Liz Sable
Review: I should have given this five stars - but nothing is perfect. First, the cover of this book is great! It is colorful, eye catching and just plain neat. A bug on a debugging book - how unique. I got this book in the college bookstore because I am having trouble writing good C++ programs. While I'm not into Windows programming YET, the other material I have already used - cool. Who ever wrote this book (Papas and Murray) did a really good job explaining the kind of stuff I'm having problems with. I think it is kind of neat that they take a problem or two in a program and then go after it with whatever tools you can use. Some of there problems are from their college courses that they teach.
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Summary: Decent for beginner Windows programmers
Review: I was pretty excited when I first got this book, but was pretty disappointed after reading it. First off, the title is misleading, focusing on Windows rather than C++. Since I am mainly a Windows programmer, though, this didn't phase me too much. However, the book often seemed to be a manual for the Visual C++ debugger rather than an insightful narrative on the debugging process. Although I realize examples have to be short and to the point, I was often insulted by the ridiculously simple errors the authors presented. The section on inline assembly debugging is almost useless. A much better approach would be examining the assembly language that the Visual C++ compile generates, rather than creating simple ASM programs with obvious mistakes. I would have much rather seen a book about preventing bugs, and techniques that can be used to accomplish this goal. While this is certainly not that book, it would be useful for something just getting started with Visual C++, though anyone beyond a novice would probably be as disappointed as I was.
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Summary: Buy John Robbins 'Debugging Applications' instead.
Review: Man - I couldn't figure this stuff out till I got this book. It shows how to do really hard debugging stuff with one or two computers. Kewl.
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Summary: Decent for beginner Windows programmers
Review: The title suggests that this is a c++ book. It is not. More than half the text is devoted to MFCs, DLLs, and other microsoft platform and tools specific issues. In fact, perhaps only 2-3 of the chapters can be said to be actually dealing with the c++ language. And the information provided there is pretty generic. "debug your code, not stroustrup's". Well, thank you. For users more advanced on MFCs and the like, it may be of use, but for students of C++, money is better spent elsewhere.
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