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Summary: This book reads as if it were WRITTEN in 24 hours. A no buy!
Review: I am an experienced C programmer new to Microserfdom and I needed something that would bring me up to speed quickly in the world of Visual C++. A cursory read of this book gave me the impression that most of what I needed was inside; alas, when I came to using the book and programming with the examples the complete absence of direction in the book became apparent. Very little is explained from the top. The philosophy is to immerse the reader in the thick of the action and, presumably, hope that he learns something. Unfortunately, creating code with wizards and, to the uninitiated, inserting seemingly random fragments of code to perform GUI actions without the faintest hint of explanation as to the what, how, and why, does not a rapid learning experience make! I would urge the potential buyer to avoid this book like the plague: it is frustrating beyond even that which one would expect of anything in Microserfdom. The book has one single good point, however: if you buy it, all other learning experiences will seem trivial in comparison. Save your cash.
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Summary: Good book for people ALREADY know general C++...
Review: and want to jump start Visual C++. Some basic understanding of Windows message looping mechanism will help to understand the contents. Only MFC are covered, and MFC wizards (App wizard, class wizard) are heavily used.
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Summary: Confusing
Review: I've gotten other "...in 24 hours" books and like them but this one is confusing. The author's thoughts and directions seem scattered. I'm frustrated I paid money for this book.
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Summary: Cant put the book down. . .
Review: At the ripe old age of 40 I am embarking on a change of career from an engineer to a programmer and have very limited experience of C,C++. I Have attended the following courses :- C++ Primer C++ for non C programmers C++ & MFC I have not yet written a line of commercial c++ code. I have just bought your Visual C++ 6 starter kit I have spent a fortune on various C++ books and attended expensive training courses too. Your book is by far the best I have ever seen, I cant put it down, it fills in all the gaps and consolodates most of the theory learnt on the recent courses where other books fight shy of supplying syntax. Thank you, Thank you Thank you
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Summary: Bad
Review: This was a not good book, very hard and confusing. Instead I would recommend getting C For Dummies, then Teach Yourself C in 21 Days. MFC is not worth learning. Learn the Windows API instead.
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Summary: Waste of time
Review: I wish I had read the other reviews before I purchased this book because some of them are very accurate. I've been programming for years, but have no Visual C++ experience. I was looking for something to get a quick start. With more difficulty than should have been necessary, I made it all the way through most of chapter 8, at which time it became a complete waste. The author skips from topic to topic and does not explain the fundamentals behind major concepts. Multiple pages are used to list every property for different controls and yet space cannot be found to explain basic ideas. This is a typical example of a good concept (learn something without reading a book that's too heavy to carry) that was not implemented well. Either it was rushed to press too soon or they should have found a more appropriate author.
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Summary: Not for the uninitiated
Review: I'm sure that this book would be great, IF you had a working knowledge of C++ first. The only reason I got the book was for the compiler, and possibly to learn C++. I quickly found out that the book itself was completely lacking on any real C++ instruction. I think its really great that I can build a dialog box...but its absolutely useless to me if I can't call up the dialog box from a program that I've written. So therefore I'm on another book learning C++ and will come back to this one when I feel I need to build programs in windows. Again, If you want to learn C++, this is not the book to do it.
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Summary: Confusing, Useless
Review: Is this a book on C++ ? Is it a book on the Visual C++ IDE ? Is it a book on programming in Windows/MFC ? I really don't know, and don't believe the author knew either as he seems to randomly discuss the above topics without fully explaining anything. There are many better books out there.
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Summary: No Detail, But I guess thats what they're going for...
Review: I am an Intermediate/Expert VB Programmer but I don't know anything about C++ or C, This book I think is mainly telling you where to put the code, how to work your way threw C++, but it did not teach me any code, It told me to put the code in the text document and run it but it didn't tell me what I was putting, I recommend this for C++ intermediate and above programmers, not for beginners.
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Summary: Not for beginners.
Review: The first couple of chapters had me excited, but before I could get 1/4 of the way through the book he completely lost me. What a waste of money. Beginners stay away from this one.
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