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Summary: Great book for odd jobs
Review: A good compliment to the Qt documentation. Provides some very useful examples...ON CD.
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Summary: Good compliment to Qt docs. Useful examples ON CD.
Review: Finally. A Qt book with a CD.
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Summary: Useful and Practical
Review: I found the example programs clear, concise, mostly easy to follow, and well explained. Best of all they are practical, and can be put to immediate use in real life applications. I didn't feel like they were written just to illustrate an abstract capability, but to help address issues that I grapple with in normal QT development.Having the sample routines on CD makes it a snap to cut-and-paste then edit for my own projects, though I also like to type routines manually from time to time, to ensure I cover every step and have a thorough understanding of what the code is doing. While it's true a fair amount of the book is devoted to functions which are available from Trolltech, I find it helpful to have the list of functions available in hard copy within the book. Referring to functions is quick, easy, and convenient. I found this book to be a good instructional tool as well as a good reference manual. Not for a complete novice, however.
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Summary: Waste of money!
Review: I have the the "Qt Programming for Linux and Windows 2000" by the same author, that was a poorly written book, only 20 percent of the content maybe usefull, I am surprised even such book got published, it raise my doubt about HP Professional Books. The list of Qt classes takes at least 20 percent of that book's content. I would sell mine brand new one for...(just to recover part of my cost).
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Summary: Don't think this book is good because of its title.
Review: I thought this book would give at least another angle learning and programming Qt and with HP's name on the book I thought it would be a quality book. Instead it is *obviously* an effort to be one of the first to market so that it can cash in on Qt. Essentially the book is a poorly written rehash of the Qt documentation that is already free. It also contains tons of listings, indexes and tables obviously put in to make the book look thick. Order the book if you like, but be prepared to be very disappointed. Notice how the prior ratings for this book are either 1-star or 5-star? There's a reason. (After this post, I now expect to see some new 4-star postings. Can you guess why?) Please don't get suckered in and give the author his quick buck. The book is so bad, I knew I was going to return it after going through it for 5 minutes. Mr. Ward should be embarrassed by this book. But he probably doesn't care because he's laughing all the way to the bank. Fyi, I ordered the Sams "Qt Programming in 24hours" book also. The Sams book, of course, only covers the basics, but I found it a good read. Also, it's interesting to notice how Qt's own readme has two books on it's "recommended list", the O'Rielly book and the Sam's book. It does not list this book and I'm willing to bet money that it never will.
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Summary: Don't think this book is good because of its title.
Review: I thought this book would give at least another angle learning and programming Qt and with HP's name on the book I thought it would be a quality book. Instead it is *obviously* an effort to be one of the first to market so that it can cash in on Qt. Essentially the book is a poorly written rehash of the Qt documentation that is already free. It also contains tons of listings, indexes and tables obviously put in to make the book look thick. Order the book if you like, but be prepared to be very disappointed. Notice how the prior ratings for this book are either 1-star or 5-star? There's a reason. (After this post, I now expect to see some new 4-star postings. Can you guess why?) Beware of getting suckered in and giving the author the quick buck he's looking for. The book is so bad, I knew I was going to return it after going through it for 5 minutes. Mr. Ward should be embarrassed by this book. But he probably doesn't care because he's laughing all the way to the bank. Fyi, I ordered the Sams "Qt Programming in 24hours" book also. The Sams book, of course, only covers the basics, but I found it a good read. Also, it's interesting to notice how Qt's own readme has two books on it's "recommended list", the O'Rielly book and the Sam's book. It does not list this book and I'm willing to bet money that it never will.
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Summary: Good stuff
Review: I'm new to Qt but I have played with it before I bought this book. At first I thought the book was trying to be a Qt reference manual until I got to the part where Ward explains what it's for: A different organization of way too much Qt information. It does that OK. What I really like is that the examples applied to what I'm trying to get done. When does the new book come out? Cover QFtp!
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Summary: Useful only to start
Review: If you have never seen Qt, this is a useful book. It has a good explanation of the concepts and basic programming.
But if you are spending your time reading the online documentation and coding, the book soon becomes useless and goes to the desk eternally.
I bought it because O'Really book looked outdated. I think there is a new edition comming soon.
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Summary: Not perfect but the best available
Review: Lots of examples that work.
Too much info that's provided w/the software.
CD is very nice to have!
A lot of substance and little "fluff."
It helped me become a better QT programmer - and that's the bottom line, isn't it?
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Summary: a poor book
Review: not suitable for tutorial. not suitable for reference. just like a poor copy of reference documents in Qt packages. Qt reference documents is more usful for me
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