Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133 EAN: 9780471312901 ISBN: 0471312908 Label: John Wiley & Sons Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 624 Publication Date: September 11, 1998 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Sales Rank: 2362131 Studio: John Wiley & Sons
Editorial Review:
Product DescriptionGet up to speed with the latest version of Visual C++. What makes Fast Track the C++ guide of choice is leading expert Steve Holzner's practical approach to learning by example. Cutting right to the core of issues crucial to programmers, this book begins with a brief refresher course and then moves quickly onto the skills that really count: capturing images, metafiles, and other advanced graphics; creating and synchronizing multithreaded programs; capturing keystrokes with Windows hooks; building a Web browser; building ActiveX controls; and much more.
Companion Web site provides all source code from the book.
Visual C++ is a trademark of Microsoft, Inc.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Needs revision
This is a decent book to get you up to speed with Visual C++.
There are many mistakes in the book that need corrected. If his is your first C++ book and you are new to programming it could become difficult to figure out what is wrong with the code. Mistakes like project name is MDIMenus and code example is CMenusMDIDoc which by the project name actually becomes CMDIMenusDoc. Could be a bit of a struggle for a beginner. But the struggle will help you in learning C++. I did enjoy doing the samples. ... Read More
Rating: - Not very well written
Initially looking at it it seemed like a good book. As I started using it, it has a lot of REDUNDANT code. A lot of the code in the book is generated by VS. This takes up on average 2 pages. I wish he highlighted the code that he wants to illustrate. I had to spend time comparing my VS code with the one in the book to find out what changed. It seems like he wanted to have more pages in the book by doing this.
Rating: - Get programming fast!
This is the best book out there for beginners or even intermediates. The style is clear and easy to read, and the examples really help you to get up to speed fast. I still refer to it frequently. Definitely worth it!
Rating: - good book to begin programming VC++
It hasn't got many examples, the code is redundant but if you are a beginner, this is one of the best books you can start with.
Rating: - Informative but not well written
The walk-through examples are good for getting started with VC++ quickly but the book is very disorganized, some of the examples appear to have incorrect information, and half of the book is nothing but redundant code.
- Not very well written
- Get programming fast!
- good book to begin programming VC++
