Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Step by Step--Version 2003 (Step By Step (Microsoft))

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only if you do programming
Good book but ,,. does not get you anywhere unless you think you can move to India!

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Waste of money and time
I can't believe this is a microsoft signed book. It is named Step by Step, means, it should be for beginners. I have been using Visual Basic since VB 5.0 and now I am using [,,.]. I am not new to programming; however, I couldn't benefit anything from this book. None of the examples complied on my machine. So I am wondering how much will benefit from this book a person completely new to programing. My guess is that this book will scare people away from this major.

The authors failed to explain the basic information needed by a person that never used C++. I mean, the namespaces, libraries, basic difference between compilers. None of the code works becaues the Authors never tell you which namespace or library should you include. You will never see, in any of the examples any of the following terms (#include, #using, using namespace, ,,.). Do the authors expect us, as beginners, to figure that out.

If you don't explain these information, what is the point of a Step by Step book. I can figure out the C++ syntax for If Statement, Switch, Loops, ,,. This is not the reason I would be the C++ book. These things exist in the help.

This book wasted my time. I will have to buy another book.

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No Steps at all
I've bought most of the MS Visual C++ books. This is the worst of all. If you are new to programming, many of the chapters you won't know what it is talking about.

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Rushed, mangled, and a waste of money
This book is a bunch of rushed ideas and statements( no thought), and the
whole book is in rushed jibber-jabber. They keep indicating that you will
learn this later, and that. Later comes and you never learn it. It is quite amazing to me how they could have fill the many pages (600+) of the book with filibuster garggle. Do not buy this book. You won't be able to pace yourself and follow along (it's a disorganized mess), and you will not learn anything, and will waste your money. Whoever wrote this book should go to jail for content faud. End of story.

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Good other Book
This book seems to be exactly a C++ for Microsoft software step by step. If you do not understand the computer program, expect to want a teach yourself book for the same Visual C++. However, this book starts you off writing a program in the start of the book. I found other books that expect one to read the whole book before you even touch the software. This book seems to be split between a lesson and a manual, but more like the manual only that could come with the software from Microsoft Press. This book is typical of Microsoft because it is as if it says just write our Visual C++, never mind other concepts, only you need the Microsoft way as long as it works with this complier and that is all you really need to know. This book is all about Microsoft and it's world of Windows software.