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Title: Nowhere near complete
Review: This is a 27 chapter book. For the first 20 chapters the authors cover C and C++, with no coverage of MS VC++. For the last 7 chapters, they try to touch on every concept in VC++ without actually explaining anything. Numerous times the authors will give an example and then tell the student to use that program as a template, instead of bothering to explain the calls that the program makes. The coverage of VC++ material does not give enough information to assist anyone in creating a useful program. As for coverage of complex topics, DLLs and threads each get their own sentence.I am a professional C developer who has been programming for a long time. Hands down, this is the worst programming book that I have ever read.
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