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Summary: Ok book, wrong title.
Review: This book reinforces the old adage that you can't judge a book by its cover. Emblazoned across the top of the cover is the phrase, "Open This Book as a Novice and Finish It as a Pro." If only that were true. This book focuses on the new features available under Visual C++ 6.0, and provides a great resource for learning those topics. Unfortunately, it seems to be schizophrenic in the topics it tackles. This is not an introductory book designed to teach you Visual C++ "from the Ground Up" as the title implies. The first part of the book is a verbose introduction to Visual C++. The second part focuses on ADO and ODBC database topics. The next one-third of the book focuses on Internet related topics, from designing a web page, through basic JavaScript, and finishes on IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Server). Later, Mueller delves into security issues. Next, Mueller explores creating help files, and HTML help files (this part of the book is worth its weight in gold). The last part focuses on packaging your application for distribution. While I can't deny that this book contains a lot of great information (once you get past the verbose introduction), it doesn't do what it sets out be-- an all-inclusive tutorial on Visual C++. I would go so far as to say that the title is intentionally misleading. Also, note that there is relatively little source code presented within the text. What it does not cover: basic controls, dialogs, windows messaging, DDX, owner drawn controls, document-view framework, or any basic MFC classes.
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Summary: Ok book, wrong title.
Review: This book reinforces the old adage that you can't judge a book by its cover. Emblazoned across the top of the cover is the phrase, "Open This Book as a Novice and Finish It as a Pro." If only that were true. This book focuses on the new features available under Visual C++ 6.0, and provides a great resource for learning those topics. Unfortunately, it seems to be schizophrenic in the topics it tackles. This is not an introductory book designed to teach you Visual C++ "from the Ground Up" as the title implies. The first part of the book is a verbose introduction to Visual C++. The second part focuses on ADO and ODBC database topics. The next one-third of the book focuses on Internet related topics, from designing a web page, through basic JavaScript, and finishes on IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Server). Later, Mueller delves into security issues. Next, Mueller explores creating help files, and HTML help files (this part of the book is worth its weight in gold). The last part focuses on packaging your application for distribution. While I can't deny that this book contains a lot of great information (once you get past the verbose introduction), it doesn't do what it sets out be-- an all-inclusive tutorial on Visual C++. I would go so far as to say that the title is intentionally misleading. Also, note that there is relatively little source code presented within the text. What it does not cover: basic controls, dialogs, windows messaging, DDX, owner drawn controls, document-view framework, or any basic MFC classes.
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Summary: A Good Paper Weight ONLY
Review: This book taught me to read Amazon.com reviews before buying. I enjoyed Visual Basic From the Ground Up so much, that I quickly bought Visual C++ From the Ground Up when I found the title. Bad move... Nothing about this book was from the ground up. It was a waste of money and a waste of time. Save your money and your time, if you need a good basic C++ book try Ivor Horton's "Beginning Visual C++" And, read Amazon.com book reviews before you buy!
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Summary: A Good Paper Weight ONLY
Review: This book taught me to read Amazon.com reviews before buying. I enjoyed Visual Basic From the Ground Up so much, that I quickly bought Visual C++ From the Ground Up when I found the title. Bad move... Nothing about this book was from the ground up. It was a waste of money and a waste of time. Save your money and your time, if you need a good basic C++ book try Ivor Horton's "Beginning Visual C++" And, read Amazon.com book reviews before you buy!
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Summary: In-depth intro and alot more.
Review: This is a very valuable book with alot of meat. You really have to focus getting through it because it doesn't hold your hand. But if you stay with it you can learn alot. I did.
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Summary: Do not spend your money on this book!
Review: Unorganized. Obfuscated. No source codes provided
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Summary: Do not buy this book!!
Review: Very shallow, basically covers how to walk through a few wizards and I'm disgusted trees were wasted in this effort.
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Summary: Book for a specific needs
Review: Why I gave this book a mark +---- + The book touchs two hot topics in current development - database(with ADO) and internet -The book hardly touchs anything else -The slogan :"Open this book as a Novice and finish as a Pro" is false from both sides. Even author admits in introduction, that you should have C++ experience.As for part two look at first and next minuses. -The real content of a book is small, i.e. author explains how to create DSN on 9(!) pages and include some completely unnecessary stuff like Web design and JavaScript on 80+ pages -Author shows his lazyness and complete disrespect to readers because the zipped(!) source code on web totally is ~44 Mb :( Can you imagine to download it with 28.8 Modem? And that is only because the author simply zipped all files including huge VC debug stuff that is absolutely unnecessary - any can compile it with VC at home. So the proper name of the book should be - "Introduction to database and internet development with VC6 for VC developers".In this case this book may be useful to start.
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