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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++ 6 in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition by Davis Chapman, Jeff Heaton ISBN: 0-672-31404-5 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 28 December, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.58 (79 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good for VC++, but you may want to have a grasp of...
Comment: basic C++ before reading this.
When I originally picked up this book, I had no knowledge of the C++ language, and hoped that this may be of some help to me. I soon learned, however, that it would only teach me MFC. After I finished the book and ventured out into the land of writing my own programs, I quickly found myself constantly going back to the book to figure out how to do something. I am an extremely fast learner, so the first few times wouldn't be an issue, but when I was going back five times to be able to set the default settings of a checkbox, I find that outrageous! After my first (unsuccessful) encounter with this book, I went out and got "Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days". This gave me a very good grasp of the C++ language. After finishing that, I returned to TYVC, zoomed through it, and now not only have a strong understanding of MFC, but rarely must consult a reference for anything other than new material, which I quickly understand. As for learning the VC++ environment and MFC, this is an excellent book. Many of the examples given have some errors, but look at it as a free class in debugging! I think that it went into well enough detail to allow someone with a good understanding of C++ strong foundations in MFC. However, because it is not titled "Teach Yourself MFC in 21 Days", I think it could have gone over the features of the VC++ development environment in more detail, such as using the integrated debugger. Other than the lack of compiler-specific details and some buggy programs, I have no complaints. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who, as I've stated many times, has a solid understanding of C++. Do not become fooled by the title and think you will learn both VC++ and C++ in the same book, otherwise you will become heavily dependant upon it when writing your own programs in the future.
Rating: 1
Summary: The worst programming book i ever saw
Comment: If you want to learn to program C++ or even VC++ i think even using some online tutorial would be better. This book is completely useless. I dont own a copy (If i did i would have burnt it up), i dont do window$ stuff (FreeBSD all the way). A friend of my taking some programming course where they used this book as the course text and happened to have some assignments i was helping him with. Why did i give it such a poor rating?? 'Cos it is the most annoying book i ever saw. The author's style of programming is really really poor and inconsistent; like inconsistent use of both camel and hungarian notation. He must have learnt programming from VB(which is notorious for its poor coding practices). The most annoying thing about this book is the uneccessary comments, like:
areaOfYard = FindArea(lengthOfYard,widthOfYard); // call to function passing a length and width value
return l * w; // in one statement... return l * w ... wow
(like this is sooo amazing)
oh and
i++ // increment i
Really, how dumb does he think readers are?? This should probably have been called VC++ for dumb dummies. Comments should be used to clarify code not just repeat what code sais.
Except you're a complete newbie to C++ or any other programming language you'll find this book completely frustrating and annoying and even if you're a newbie it'll teach you very bad programming practices.
Rating: 4
Summary: This is good for a beginner
Comment: I really liked this book as a Beginner since it teaches a lot about the visual studio environment and also takes you step-by-step through applications. Not the greatest in-depth or and by no means advanced. But its super for a beginner.If you know little of VC++ and even less of MFC then START here. Notice I emphasized Start....since you will need to read lots of other books to gain deeper understanding. Take this from someone who struggled with the advanced books and then got a better start with this one.
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (4th Edition) by Jesse Liberty ISBN: 067232072X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Special Edition Using Visual C++ 6 by Kate Gregory ISBN: 0789715392 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 14 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Beginning Visual C++ 6 by Ivor Horton ISBN: 0764543881 Publisher: Wrox Pub. Date: 26 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++ 6 in 24 Hours by Mickey Williams ISBN: 0672313030 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 03 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++.NET in 21 Days (2nd Edition) by Davis Chapman ISBN: 0672321971 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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