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Summary: The worst book I ever read
Review: The introduction offered by authors makes it a seemingly nice book. But after I opened it, I regretted on my puchase immediately. They wanted to tell you everything about VC++, but they didn't know where to start, what to start and how to start. Even worse, they never provided an example from the very beginning step. They assumed the readers are a group of experts-to-be, who only owe a bunch of shredded "advices" from this "Bible". In my opinion, this book is a junk both to beginner, intermediate, and experts. Authors performed like a bear in the corn field, hoping to get everthing there, but made nothing at last. If possible, I will give it 0 star. Think it carefully before you buy this book.
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Summary: this is a good book
Review: There is no "a good book" for everybody. This book contains original and clear information.
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Summary: this is a good book
Review: There is no "a good book" for everybody. This book contains original and clear information.
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Summary: this is a good book
Review: There is no "a good book" for everybody. This book contains original and clear information.
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Summary: Best Reference - Fair Tutorial
Review: This book contains a lot of information, but it does a very bad job of explaining how to use that information. Explanations are usually very brief and somewhat vague. Source code is often not explained at all. The authors make too many assumptions about the reader's knowledge of MFC. If you want an encyclopedia-like reference, then this book is for you. If, however, you want a book that will TEACH you how to use MFC and will give you a good understanding of this subject, then almost any book about Visual C++ is better than this one.
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Summary: Good reference, bad MFC tutorial
Review: This book contains a lot of information, but it does a very bad job of explaining how to use that information. Explanations are usually very brief and somewhat vague. Source code is often not explained at all. The authors make too many assumptions about the reader's knowledge of MFC. If you want an encyclopedia-like reference, then this book is for you. If, however, you want a book that will TEACH you how to use MFC and will give you a good understanding of this subject, then almost any book about Visual C++ is better than this one.
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Summary: Not a good learning book, not a good reference either.
Review: This book doesn't present topics in logical order for learning. The chapters aren't connected, and they don't explain functions sufficiently. Sucks for learning. Bad for refence too. I.e., looked up CRect, two pages listed. Both are off-hand references to CRect, with no examples of how to implement the CRect class.
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Summary: Not a good learning book, not a good reference either.
Review: This book doesn't present topics in logical order for learning. The chapters aren't connected, and they don't explain functions sufficiently. Sucks for learning. Bad for refence too. I.e., looked up CRect, two pages listed. Both are off-hand references to CRect, with no examples of how to implement the CRect class.
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Summary: Good On Hard-ToFind Topics
Review: This book has great tutorials and explanations of topics that other books don't really touch. Two examples are internet programming and imaging. I'd recommend this to supplement any other book you have--or as the only book you have.
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Summary: Best Reference - Fair Tutorial
Review: This book is definatly not the best C++ "Tutorial". But on the other hand it is the best VC++ 6 reference I have, and believe me I have alot of other references. This is an intermediate book, so don't think your going to know nothing and buy one book and then all of the sudden know it all. Thats not the way things work. With that said I recommend this book to anyone serious about programming in VC++ because it will come in very handy as a reference at least.
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