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Title: excessively complex
Review: The idea is great. The book covers a good amount of C++, and then moves on to MFC. The execution of the idea is terrible. It seems Mr. Horton spends more time showing off his abilities as a programmer then he does trying to explain the concepts. My teacher used this book in a college MFC programming class. I hardly ever touched this book, and was forced to use others for reference. Almost everything I learned about C++, I learned from lectures and other books, and everything I learned about MFC, I got from "Practical Visual C++", which manages to focus on MFC while teaching it instead of focusing on an excessive amount of trivial C++ code. If you want to get a good feel of C++, get "Beginning Visual C++" by Tony Gaddis. It covers more then the first half of Horton's book, and explains it well (unlike Horton). True, you might end up spending a bit more money then just by buying this book, but at least you'll have an idea of whats going on.
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