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Title: Visual C++.NET: How to Program by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel ISBN: 0-13-437377-4 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 27 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $88.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A slightly pear-shaped introduction to VC++.Net
Comment: The first thing I noticed about this text is the absence of the familiar colour coding used throughout the other volumes. Could this be a sign of publisher wariness, or simply cost cutting?
The book has much in common (including examples) with the other Deitel and Deitel .Net (C#, VB) volumes. Chapter development and layout is very similar. The standard of the material is mostly very good as one would expect, but topic coverage leaves something to be desired.
Firstly, it's a personal opinion, but I am not convinced that the several hundred pages devoted to web services is what students of C++ (and new professionals) need or want. Consequently, I ask myself whether this space should be shunted into a separate book. Secondly, there is a very small amount of space devoted to data structures, roughly 53 pages. Much smaller than needs be given the overall size of the book. Moreover, the reader only gets to data structures after 1000 pages of text. This apparent underemphasis on data structures raised a variety questions in my mind about the software engineering philosophy of the text. Thirdly, the book explicitly avoids dealing with ActiveX and COM. Attributes, a new feature in Visual C++ are mentioned in passing, and ATL is not mentioned at all.
Overalll, I am less postive about this book than their earlier proramming in C++ text. It seemed to me from reading the book, that there is a formula at play and material is shoehorned to fit accordingly. I fully acknowledge that much of the material is excellent and competently explained, but as an overall learning text on VC++.Net I think improvements are required.
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Title: Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step--Version 2003 by Jon Jagger, John Sharp ISBN: 0735619093 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 26 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: C++ How to Program (4th Edition) by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel ISBN: 0130384747 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 12 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $88.00 |
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Title: Visual Basic.NET How to Program, Second Edition by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, Tem R. Nieto ISBN: 0130293636 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 11 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $88.00 |
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Title: Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Language Reference by Microsoft, Microsoft Press, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735615535 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 29 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: C# How to Program by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Dietel, Jeffrey A. Listfield, Tem R. Nieto, Cheryl H. Yaeger, Marina Zlatkina ISBN: 0130622214 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 14 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $88.00 |
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