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Summary: Can't decide whether it wants to be a tutorial or a ref...
Review: ... and thereby ends up failing on both counts. The chief problem with this book is not that it is necessarily bad or incomplete, but the entire framework of the book. Beginning programmers generally want a book with a lot of thoroughly detailed examples, whereas more experienced programmers would prefer a highly terse list of definitions. Unfortunately, this book contains neither, which makes you very confused as to what his intended audience was supposed to be. It doesn't explain things from start to finish nearly enough, and does not stand well as a reference. The author evidently assumes that the reader has a photographic memory and that the book is going to be read from cover to cover. I really cannot imagine this being terribly useful in any regard to someone wanting to write an application in VC++.
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Summary: The book to make you a guru
Review: At long last someone gave us the book we all need. Thanks my new guru Beck Zaratian. This book is to teach you VC++ not MFC, but the illustrative examples are just to intereseting. If you ever find yourself looking for tips over the internet or magazines on VC++, then you can sleep now. This book is the TIP. This is a book I bought and wish to send someone a copy. Believe me, I am now a VC++ guru, just try me. Please remember, MFC does not help you write win95 apps fast, VC++ tools that will and this is the ONLY help out there to master them. Take away the AppWizard, ClassWizard etc and see how life will become. If you ever felt insulted by the so-called VC++ books, which gave you nothing more than screen-shots of VC++ installations, component gallery, resource editor, debugger windows etc as if you cannot see, then come home get THIS book. Oh! there is an illustrative example of the debugger to walk you through-not dead screen-shots. I do not know how well to express my feelings about this book. Please shopper, this is a promise-if you buy this book and find it useless or like any book you ever read on VC++, email me and I will pay and take it. If I get three or more people returning this book, I will come back here to tell the whole world. That will not change my love for this book, however. For a newbie, there is no better help than this God Sent. Thanks Beck, for you made me what I will ever be proud of-using VC++ with confidence! may God bless you richly. Paul Selormey.
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Summary: Unix C++ programmers Do NOT buy this Book
Review: If I wanted a a story I would have read Fiction. the book details many aspects of MFC/VC++ programming, but the tuturial is not worth the paper it is printed on. The exercise flow easily in some chapters than others. more often than not the author tends to say" When you are this far, do this" When in fact you have passed that stage following the guidelines. More so, is the anoying tendancy to let the reader do something and say"You should have done this in the app Wizard".. hmm only to find out you didn't and that you have to repeat everything you have done. This book is worthless. Microsoft Press can add another poor book to the collection. I am sticking with WROX.
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Summary: Not what I'd hoped for
Review: The book is about the same physical size as many of Microsoft Press' other programming books. As it turns out, that's because it was printed on heavy stock, in large type, and contains a lot of material that could be omitted. The book assumes you're already familiar with Windows programming and MFC -- I wasn't familiar with either, and so felt this acutely -- yet the author felt compelled to provide details like how to select more than one file at a time from the standard file dialog. Particularly in the early chapters, you spend half the time learning something interesting, and half the time wondering whether the author had a page quota. I would be more willing to recommend this book if it had taken the form of a manual, and provided comprehensive coverage rather than selecting a few topics and casually walking through them. I would also have liked to see more recommendations on how to go about creating and maintaining source code and associated resource files. ! The author intersperses comments like, "if you change something here, you will have to go back and clean up the other stuff over here". Had that taken the form of a checklist, instead of casual commentary sprinkled throughout the book, it might have proven more useful. There *are* useful pieces of information here, about features you might not otherwise notice, but this book falls short of providing a comprehensive manual or a useful "how to" guide.
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Summary: Unix C++ programmers Do NOT buy this Book
Review: This book contains some useful, though poorly presented information. This book attempts to be a tutorial, but often reads more like an encyclopedia. I would not recommend this book until it has been fixed.
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