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Title: Please, do yourself a favor and look for a different book.
Review: The cover sates that the reader will learn by example. What this means is: "Do you want to know how to make a window or menu? OK, here is the code."There is far more code in the book than actual text. The code is almost never explained outside of brief remark statments within the code. If the author had written a book about learning how to build a car engine from scratch, he would have thrown in a bunch of engineer's designs and left it at that.The book also uses MFC and ActiveX controlls heavily without explaining them. The book can't even be used as a reference. This book is a stain upon the autor and Sybex.It dosen't matter what learning style works best for the reader. This book teaches nothing, it mearly shows code. I am experienced with C/C++ as well as a few other languages. Therefore, I do not believe that my dissapointment arises from simply not understanding C++.
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