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Summary: Sams Teach Yourself Qt Programming in 24 Hours
Review: This a very easy to read book. It explains the basics to start writing Qt programs. I give it high scores.
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Summary: Great for beginners and those who can't speak proper english
Review: This book as mentioned before has many of grammar errors. If you're from a country other than the USA and cannot speak proper English, this is your Qt book. It is a wonderful book for beginners to get started with. The intermediate and beyond will find this book to be boring, or they will learn one thing from it. It is the only 24-hour book I own.
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Summary: Great for beginners and those who can't speak proper english
Review: This book as mentioned before has many of grammar errors. If you?re from a country other than the USA and cannot speak proper English, this is your Qt book. It is a wonderful book for beginners to get started with. The intermediate and beyond will find this book to be boring, or they will learn one thing from it. It is the only 24-hour book I own.
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Summary: A little outdated, and not proofread
Review: This is a good book for the last version of Qt but not great for the current one (as of 8/27/2002). It also has significant proofreading errors in it, implying that it was written in more or less the same amount of time that you're supposed to read it in. However, it is an easy-to-read introduction to Qt programming and is nice for beginners (I recall a quote saying "of course, if you're a professional programmer you wouldn't have gotten this book" -- and I *am* a professional programmer). The O'Reilly book is a better choice if you already know programming; and if you don't know programming you probably shouldn't be starting with Qt. :)
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Summary: A little outdated, and not proofread
Review: This is a good book for the last version of Qt but not great for the current one (as of 8/27/2002). It also has significant proofreading errors in it, implying that it was written in more or less the same amount of time that you're supposed to read it in. However, it is an easy-to-read introduction to Qt programming and is nice for beginners (I recall a quote saying "of course, if you're a professional programmer you wouldn't have gotten this book" -- and I *am* a professional programmer). The O'Reilly book is a better choice if you already know programming; and if you don't know programming you probably shouldn't be starting with Qt. :)
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Summary: Best Introductory book available on Qt
Review: This is definitely the best introductory book available at present on Qt.I must admit that, in general, I don't like the "Teach Yourself.." series from Sams, as I generally find that despite the good ansatz of "teach by doing" that the books tend to be 'thrown together' in too much of a hurry. Often they end up being little more than a collection of "click here, type this, and now you understand what happened" lectures, that lack good descriptions and explanations of why the examples work, and how one could change them to suit one's needs. However there is a distinctive lack of Qt books on the market as of this writing: 3 in English: Solin (this book), Dalheimer (pub: O'Reilly edition 1) , and Ward (pub: Hewlett Packard) 1 in German: Leaner (pub: Addison Wesley, edition 2.. a thorough and helpful book too incidentally), and 1 in Japanese, with the "Official Qt Documentation" soon to be published. So I bought the book, albeit it with reservation, and started reading with scepticism.I was very pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong in this case. The book is extremely well written with great attention to detail. The author is careful to cover lots of ground at a sufficient (but not pedantically nity gritty) level, with a self-contained and simple example for each of the many topics/Qt classes covered, making this an ideal introduction to and preparation for the (extensive and coherent) online Qt documentation. All other Qt books presently available have the serious failing that they do not have enough examples to illustrate the discussions in the book. Dalheimer has several versions of a single example and otherwise only code snippets (this is by the way the next best book in my opinion), and Ward has no complete examples worth mentioning (this book is highly overpriced, and not worth buying in my opinion. Borrow it from a library perhaps. It has a slightly outdated version of Qt (2.1) on an accompanying Cd which is something the other books don't have though.. perhaps a positive consideration for those with slow internet connections). The author's email address is also printed in the book, and he was kind enough to answer promptly and send me the example source code, when I wrote to him. (Something the publisher's didn't...another black mark for Sams). The book also contains very helpful information on installing/setting up Qt , and even includes a chapter overviewing object orientated programming (Qt uses C++ as opposed to C. If you're completely new to C++ or object orientated concepts you should probably read an introductory book (Lafore's and Deitel's excellent works spring to mind) on that before trying to do any serious programming with Qt). All in all this book is excellent and well worth buying. The only possible room for improvement/change in future editions would be the possible inclusion of a Cd with the example code and a current version of Qt, and sections covering the newer topics such Qt Designer and database programming (intended for inclusion in Qt 3.0), and the proposed Visual C++ integration Wizard (currently (version 2.2.4) implemented as a the seperately compilable qmsdev.dll ).
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Summary: Very good book!
Review: This is the B.E.S.T book in QT-programming! No doubt!
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