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Rating:  Summary: Come on, what can I avoid? Review: It seems have a good start, but it losts me soon. It seems step by step, but leaves a few steps alone.It seems helpful with VC, but looks much like a C++ clone...
Rating:  Summary: Outstanding book Review: Well written and easy to understand. The book is good for beginner
Rating:  Summary: Almost completely useless Review: This book got off to a good start- I already know a bit of C++, so I didn't need a lot on variables and classes and the like, but a true beginner would. However, I quickly realized that this was a LOUSY BOOK. It talks about dialogues, fonts, etc., but gives information on NO PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF ANY! For instance, it doesn't tell me how to pop up a new dialogue box, or get the status of a form, or ANYTHING! Frustrating and overall, LOUSY. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!
Rating:  Summary: Great overview of Visual C++ Review: I'm a new C++ programmer, and I bought this book after a friend recommended it. It has lots of great info on things that other books didn't - like fonts, document/view, and printing. I didn't have a problem with any of the examples - I don't know what book some of these other reviewers were reading!
Rating:  Summary: You will need to buy another book for certain Review: How much can they expect to tech you in 24 hours? Well they don't except much at all. In fact they skim over topics, and at the end of the day, you only know how to program the programs like the ones available in this tutorial. Very little attention was paid to explination. I'm a seasoned C/C++ programmer just starting Visual C++, and I was left confused to the Hows and Whys of the code. Although to the credit of the author, the code is almost bug-free.
Rating:  Summary: Bad Review: 1. Inconsistency. The problem is beyond what one of the review said, that the author want you to remember every detail he had said. He himself forgot what he had said or not in the previous Hours. 2. Topics not well chosen. Some topics, like Font or Tree View in my opinion, do not deserve one of the precious first 24 hours. 3. Improper detail. For example, so many pages of the lists of every property of almost every control. A much heavy book won't do so. I guess the author was probably more serious with the first couple of Hours. Read all the reviews and you know what I mean. Anyway, if you want to get some rough idea of Visual C++ and sure will go to some more serious books later, you can spend a little time and money on this one.
Rating:  Summary: Very Good Book Review: I'm a CS Student and with this book it was a breeze to pick up Visual C++. I've had 3 years of C++ already and I thought the transition to Visual C++ would be difficult. However, it turned out to be really easy. A word of advice though before you buy this book, learn C++ first, then make the transition. If you thought that is what you were supposed to be doing by buying the book, welcome to the world of programming. Buy another C++ book that details the major terms of the language.
Rating:  Summary: The best book to avoid... Review: After reading this text, one may wonder why SAMS would pass to readers the onerous duties of their editor. Mickey Williams' text is riddled with errors and inconsistencies. One substantive example may illustrate a warning. On page 179, Mickey Williams offers excellent advice, regarding Device Contexts (DC), to not "hard-code any dimensions into your program." On implementing DC printing (Hour 21, page 334), Williams again cautions "programs written for Windows should be hardware independent." Unfortunately, Mr. Williams immediately forgets his wise advice, implementing his device dependant Hour 21 example on Printing, complete with hard-coded device dimensions. Hour 21 is an excellent example of how not to do it. On completing this and other chapters, you may at times wonder why the examples don't work. Williams too often forgets to inform readers on the details of his thoughts, creating a troubling learning experience. SAMS appears to have learned from this text to avoid its many problems, now referring readers to MSDN for much needed answers. It appears SAMS is right. On VC++ programming, this is the best book to avoid.
Rating:  Summary: Dreadful Review: I was able (with considerable difficulty) to follow this book up to Hour 7.However, Hour 8. just lost me completely. Tried to follow the Listing examples 8.6 and 8.7 but didn't have a clue what "It's just an include file, so don't add it to the project". No explanation what a project, source file, header file or their relationship to each other. Informal remarks like this are downright misleading to anyone learning the language. It may be simple to you, Mickey Williams, but you don't explain the subject particularly well. Definitely NOT recommended.
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