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Summary: C++ Builder 5 Developer's Guide (With CD-ROM)
Review: que contiene el libro ha hay paginas en español
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Summary: YEAH, BABY!
Review: ROCK ON! A GREAT PRODUCT DESERVES A GREAT BOOK! AND BABY, THIS IS A GREAT BOOK! KUDOS TO THE WRITERS FOR THEIR XCELENT FLUID WRITING STYLE. And little nuggets and gems that crop up consistently, can't get that just by reading a manual. YAHOO! LOVE THE SWIPES THE WRITERS TAKE AT VISUAL C++. JUSTLY DESERVED!
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Summary: Makes a great doorstop
Review: The reason I gave this book 1 star is because there is nothing smaller. The CD contains the same stuff you can download from Borland's web site. In fact, the book is a compilation of help screens, tutorials, and published sample applications. Borland's help is obscure at best. Taking the SAME data and putting it in print doesn't make it clear, just heavy. My particular interest was in their implementation of OpenGL. The description says "discover the latest in multi-media techniques with OpenGL". One paragraph that mentions two examples on the CD rom (The same two examples that you get for free with the eval version).
Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Makes a great doorstop
Review: The reason I gave this book 1 star is because there is nothing smaller. The CD contains the same stuff you can download from Borland's web site. In fact, the book is a compilation of help screens, tutorials, and published sample applications. Borland's help is obscure at best. Taking the SAME data and putting it in print doesn't make it clear, just heavy. My particular interest was in their implementation of OpenGL. The description says "discover the latest in multi-media techniques with OpenGL". One paragraph that mentions two examples on the CD rom (The same two examples that you get for free with the eval version).
Don't waste your money.
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Summary: A bargin
Review: This book has a much better layout then the previous book: C++ Builder 5 developers guide. Smaller print and better scaling means that all the book is on print.
It covers all the basic of using C++ Builder, + writing custom components. All of it well written. Most of the book is talking about SOAP/.NET/BizTalk/Datasnap and so on, all stuff that is only relevant for people that has the enterprise version of Builder. That does take one star from the rating, it is simply not relevant for me, since I only do engineering calculations + nice 3D plots.
People looking for a book on Builder should get this one (the documentations that comes with Builder is full of misprints) so the book fills a huge gap, even if they have the previous version. The layout + the low prize + the previous book is included, makes it a bargin!
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Summary: Great book, in spite of the CD-ROM chapters.
Review: This book is a very good one. Its biggest problem is the "CD-ROM-only" chapters. Another problem: I didn't like that the first five chapters are for beginners only, but anyway they're ok.The chapters that I've found more useful to my daily job were those of Part III (Interfaces and Distributed Computing). For example, the COM chapter has a lot of useful information, in spite of its short length and its style -which I find abrupt and weird. The chapter about DCOM is very short too, but it is well structured and contains valuable tips and advises. Finally, the MIDAS chapter is one of the bests. It helped me to understand the new features this technology offers. Nice job, Bob! But the chapter that was the most useful to me and my team was the chapter 18 (COM+). It deserves special attention. I can't understand why it goes in the CD-ROM, with the bunch of useful information about COM+ it has. Sure, it seems to have several typos -I think that its author was the same guy that wrote the COM chapter- but if you are a C++Builder developer and want to do COM+, you won't survive without it. This chapter has given me many elements that are missed from the most of the material I've read so far about the subject. Although it's too much low-level oriented, chapter 18 is a must-have for any COM+ developer. I'd say that this chapter would deserve the book's price, if printed. The chapter about image processing, although not in my field, is very well written and interesting. I would like to thank every author for this great job. Sure the book is not perfect, but it deserves its five stars!
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Summary: DLL and COM chapters are great
Review: This book is fantastic. You do not need any other book for Builder 6. I was having problems with DLL and COM programming, but this book stepped me right through it. It is easy to understand and has very good examples. The CD includes a copy of the developer's guide for Builder 5 so it is great for people making the transition from 5 to 6.
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Summary: DLL and COM chapters are great
Review: This book is fantastic. You do not need any other book for Builder 6. I was having problems with DLL and COM programming, but this book stepped me right through it. It is easy to understand and has very good examples. The CD includes a copy of the developer's guide for Builder 5 so it is great for people making the transition from 5 to 6.
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Summary: If you have C++Builder, you want this too!
Review: This book isnt really awesome, then again, what technical text is? This is still the definitive works upon the subject of C++Builder, it learns you the neat details about the IDE, it reveals the depths of the API and shows some very interesting techniques on standard C++. It is simply a book written by some very experienced programmers, seasoned in Borlands solutions. So who would want this book? Well, C++ Primers does not want it unless they have an extreme learningrate, it mainly targets people who know how to write a basic DOS program in C++ and have done some windowsprogramming in Delphi, Pascal or Visual Basic and want to get get the hinch of Windows programming in C++. You should know how C++ works, and you should know how Windows operate (You will get a crashcourse on the latter though -- See the topics on API) and want to tie the two together. Another group that would greatly benefit from it is people accustomed to Microsoft Visual C++ and wants to migrate to Borlands RAD to get more done in shorter time. If you think you are among these, you really should get this book, it is cunning and it is interesting, it reveals tricks and howtos on advanced topics and is the best book Ive ever seen on programming in Windows. So why only give it 4 stars? To put it simple, the fact that half the book is on CD only annoys me, and the fact that they crippled it in a stupid format as PDF annoys me even more! I previously bought Visual Basic Unleashed, which had their book in HTML wich was way more convenient. Not as nice looking, but way more convenient. The fact remains though, this is a very good book, and it is the only book that dwells the depth of C++Builder 5.0 -- If you intend to spend some time working with this, you owe it to yourself to have a copy of this on your shelf.
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Summary: Only for master C++ developers
Review: This book starts where all others end. Imagine a book about C++ where operator overloading is at page 40! Normally, books about programming starts with a brief introduction about object-oriented development, and some about the language itself. However, in this book, the author starts from the point that you're a master in C++, you know everything abou classes, instantiation, constructors, destructors, virtual functions, operator and function overloading and overriding, and so forth.
Due to this, it's an excellent book for programmers who knows C++ and need to know more about C++ Builder tool, and how to extract the maximum power of this tool to implement professional resources in their applications. However, if you're a dummy in C++ (as dummy as me!), don't buy this book before reading a good C++ basics title. Learn C++ before buy!
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