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Power GUI Programming with Visual Age (TM) for C++
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Author: Hiroshi Tsuji, Bob Love, William Law, Bruce Olson
List Price: $54.95
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ISBN: 0471164828
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (16 December, 1996)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 242,790
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Setting the record straight
Some of those other reviews are completely off base. This is a great book, albeit targetting a very narrow, and arguably irrelevant, subject matter.
Rating: 5 out of 5
THE Book on programming with IBM's OCL
There are very few books on programming with IBMs Open Class Library (OCL), but this one is absolutely superb. It cover every major class in detail and how to use it along with excellent examples. It also covers cross-platform issues (OS/2 and Win32) which the OCL was designed to solve.If you do any programming at all with the OCL, especially GUI programming, then this book must be at your side at all times. The OCL docs are shallow and sometimes flat out wrong. This book shines a light into an otherwise dark area. The one drawback of this book is that it is a bit dated now as it covers VisualAge for C++ 3.0 (0S/2) and 3.5 (Win32) instead of the more recent 4.0 (maybe a new edition is in the future? Hint, hint to the authors!) Also, this book was written before most of the fixpaks were released, so some of the information in it is now wrong (e.g. OS/2 now supports the four template handler classes as of fixpak 7).
Rating: 1 out of 5
Waste of Money !
This is one of the worst book I've ever read in my life ! The author fails to explain the details of the algorithm, spends too much time on irrelevant issues. Apparetly, he doesn't really care to teach anything to anybody or he doesn't know the subject well. If you want to waste your money, this is the book to get it !
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