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Summary: More misleading marketing by Coriolis.
Review: First, I would just like to say that Alexis Rios review is very accurate, with the exception of the number of stars. This book completely misrepresents itself, based on what it claims to cover. It claims to show the reader how to work with the the Windows API (15 page discussion in Ch.2), and learn the MFCs *from the ground up* (not even close) plus a laundry list of other lofty goals that the authors don't achieve.Alternate chapters are basically cookbook-style handholding exercises where you follow the directions and build an app. Every cookbook chapter is followed by a chapter of *analysis* of the code generated by the wizards. These analysis chapters are where the reader is supposed to learn the details, but the treatment is superficial and poorly organized, while also requiring the reader to be fairly comfortable with concepts of inheritance in C++. I mention this last point because the book also claims to be written for people moving from other languages to VC++. I feel that if you are new to c++ this book might be useful to learn the VC++ IDE and see what the wizards can do for you, but the *analysis* chapters are a complete waste of time. If you have a good grounding in c++ you will probably feel as burned as i felt. In summary, what this book will give you is a cookbook-style introduction to the AppWizard and ClassWizard, and alot of whitespace.
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Summary: Great book for people who want to learn MFC, but don¿t come
Review: I bought this book a year ago because I wanted to learn how to write simple applications using MFC and Visual C++ IDE. Unfortunately, after reading first six chapters (especially the ones that explained the MFC from technical point of view), I found myself in a position where I was following author's instruction, but I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't able to grasp the concept of MFC. I was frustrated to say the least. Here is warning for people who think they ready for MFC. This book will not teach you C++! Before you start reading make sure that you know C++, and understand what principles of Object Oriented Programming. If you don't know what class or object is, you going to end up like me - discouraged, and frustrated. After about six months I decided to give MFC and this book another look. This time with much stronger understanding of C++ and OOP, and I was surprised how much more I can understand and how much easier is for me to follow the author. The technical chapters now made perfect sense, and later on become very useful. I learned a lot from this book. Thorough the book you write several programs, which gives you nice overall understanding of MFC, and windows programming. I can't say that I'm expert in MFC, but I have a solid foundation on which I can build upon and explore MFC. I read this book twice, and I loved every peace of it. The last chapters seems to be rushed a little bit, and aren't so explanatory like the previous ones. Experts go look someplace else because this book is strictly for beginners.
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Summary: Not too bad, Not too good
Review: I just finished reading the first five chapters of this book. And I already got a pretty good grip on What Visual C++ and Windows programming looks like. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is because the authur gives only minor explanation of the steps he asks the reader to do. I had to try and figure out myself why he did a certain step and what the code does exactly. If you want a quick introduction to Visual C++, its a good starting point.
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Summary: Great book for people who want to learn MFC, but don?t come
Review: I learned by myself VisualBasic 6, and C++. When I started reading this book I realized that it was a waste of money. In every chapter it tells you exactly what to do and you do it like a parrot. The explanations are very terrible. I already read half of the book and it sucked. I wouldn't recommend this book to anybody. It just sucks!!!
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Summary: A great book for beginning Visual C++ and MFC programming
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I am an AS/400 programmer with 11 years experience and want to become more familiar with Windows programming. I started off with a Sam's Teach Yourself Visual C++ in 21 days (which I also liked) and followed up with this one. The authors presented the material in an easy to read and follow format. I only had two issues with the book. One, the authors would occasionally pull a function out of nowhere and use it with little or no explanation as to why. And two, I thought they dragged out the examples on drawing too long. I would have preferred more time spent on the database chapter rather than the drawing examples. But, overall an excellent book and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: A great book for beginning Visual C++ and MFC programming
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I am an AS/400 programmer with 11 years experience and want to become more familiar with Windows programming. I started off with a Sam's Teach Yourself Visual C++ in 21 days (which I also liked) and followed up with this one. The authors presented the material in an easy to read and follow format. I only had two issues with the book. One, the authors would occasionally pull a function out of nowhere and use it with little or no explanation as to why. And two, I thought they dragged out the examples on drawing too long. I would have preferred more time spent on the database chapter rather than the drawing examples. But, overall an excellent book and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: An excellent well written and well thought-out book!
Review: I recently decided to learn Visual C++ 6, after finding that there are some limitations to what can be done in Visual Basic. I have been trying to learn from tutorials etc. on the web but they always seem to be unfinished or not cover all of the important stuff. I am only 15 so I thought it was quite a challenge for me to try and learn this so called complex and confusing language. I had taken the foresight before reading this of learning the C++ language and think that that is a must before attempting this book, or Visual C++ at all. After reading that book, I have a solid understanding of the Windows APIs and can use the MFCs reasonably confidently. I would still class myself as a beginner, but at least now I have a starting point and hopefully can pick-up the rest as I go along. Even after the first 10 pages, I could see that this book was well written and the information inside of it would be easy to take in and understand. If for some reason you wish to contact me, then you may do so at r_hayden@breathemail.net.
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Summary: Good only for writing interfaces
Review: It does a pretty good job concerning how to write user interfaces, but it falls a bit short on back end programming.
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Summary: I bought Six Visual C++ 6.00 beginners books & .....
Review: This was by far the best. Its relevent to Version 6.0, many of the others were talking about subjects that were related to Windows 3x etc.. eg they were the same old books with just the covers changed and really just repeating the Scribble Tutorial. The Authors really do act as guides throught the book and provide useful information for any beginner programmer such as myself. Also the book is set out in an easy to follow style that makes following the Author's instructions exceptionally easy, with a wide variety of samples to follow. The only downfall is a few typos in the printed sample codes. However with the CD on board they are easy to rectify . I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn Visual C++. (( I'm off to write 5 real bad reviews now ))
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Summary: I'd like to be nice, but it blows
Review: Unless you have the IQ of a chimp this book just won't move quickly enough. I honestly can't figure out who this book is for, if you are just learning programming/C++ the book assumes too much knowledge but if you are moving on from another language or sharpening your skills the book takes soooo long to teach a point that you'll end up wanting to shoot yourself. Don't know how these 4 and 5 star ratings happened *shrug*, for me it got to the point where I just had to pitch it.
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