( 5 reviews )
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Posted: Nov 21 2006
I read through this after being pleased with the Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days book. I learned how to use the Microsoft Visual C++ software, and I use it as a reference regularly. I would recommend this to someone who already has a working knowledge of C++ and who would like to learn how to use the Microsoft Visual Studio/C++ software. Ideas in the book can easily be applied to Microsoft Visual Basic or any of the Microsoft Visual compiler software releases.
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( 0 of 4 found this review helpful ) Posted: Mar 22 2006
this book isn't really all that bad for those who'd like a decent intro to Visual C++ unlike what the book's haters would like to have you believe.
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( 2 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Oct 11 2005
At first I began reviewing this book as I studied it but scrapped that review as being far too lengthy - I had detailed some of the bugs that I had found in both the book's code and the book's website's downloadable code. Yes, there are some bugs and I did have a certain amount of trouble running some of the days code. Nevertheless, the book does seem to have some merit: It is, for the most part, clearly written and, for an introductory text, the example programs seem very ambitious, and thus interesting and almost useful in their own right, something that is rare in many introductory texts. The author seems to be a very good C++ programmer and the presentation is very clear and concise - it just seems that the book may have been written and finished in haste, hence the (fairly "minor") errors and bugs that appear. Additionally, the downloadable source code does not always match that of the book making the programming somewhat confusing at times.Additionally, there are some lines that are in the book but commented out in the source code - apparently they had to be for the code to compile correctly. A better introductory book on MFC is Herb Schildt's MFC Programming From the Ground Up, 2nd edition,also written for Visual C++ version 6. Schildt's book is bug free and as an introductory text it does not use the Visual C++ AppWizard and Document/View architecture until the final chapters, thus truly teaching MFC fundamentals without the confusion inherent in the AppWizard and Document/View code.
