Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step--Version 2003

Author: Jon Jonn/Jagger Sharp, Jon Jagger, John Sharp List Price: $39.99 Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price ISBN: 0735619093 Publisher: Microsoft Press (26 March, 2003) Edition: Paperback Sales Rank: 11,712 Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5

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--This is NOT a book to learn basic computer programming on.
If you have never written any program before STAYAWAY! C++ itself is already a poor choice the 1st language to learn. If you never programmed before, try a book that holds your hand more and this book is NOT it.

--This is NOT a book to learn C++ on.
Even though 1/2 of this book looks like its trying to teach C++ the bare bone language it does not do so. The author tires to teach C++ and the addition/deletion Microsoft made to C++ to make VC++. Too bad the language can't be tough in 263 pages, without sounding like a rush and thats what the 1st 1/2 reads like. If you are a C programmer this might be perfect for you, but you are still gonna find part of the sample code the book just doesn't explain at all like bscis99's review pointed out. If you are a C++ programmer already like myself the 1st half of the book will be mostly useless except for a little here and there about the difference between Unix C++ and Microsoft C++. But it is too little of here and there and I too find myself being asked to type codes that I like to be explained to a bit more. Unix programmers will find the 2nd 1/2 of the book the be perfect and exact thing they were hopping to find: "How the hell do I make GUI and make consumer software instead of corp/school software?"

--On to the good parts. The page layout are very clean and easy on the eye. Code font is easy to tell apart from book text font which a lot of famous books fails to do. The idea of introducing the whole language using console programming and old-school C++ thats universal through all platforms before introducing Microsoft only C++ and techniques is a very GOOD IDEA!

A very well orgainized book that fell on its face due to lack of detail or allowed size by publisher. The 1st half to a beginner it looks like it's for an expert. For and expert it looks like a poorly written beginners book without much use.

2nd half of the book is good but only for those who understood the topics covered in the 1st half.. which are people who already know them before reading the book.

Having said all this.. this is still the best book I've seen for VC++ using studio .NET 2003 which is pretty sad. The fact .NET studio 2003 is much different then privious years means this is one of the few books you can use.

PS.. stay away from the Dummy books on Visual Studio .NET. I've tried one before going to this book.. and that book was useless. The "hello world" code example failed...

Some of the reviews you will read for this book refer to the other "edition". I really like the C# book, but I've never even seen the C++ edition.

If you are developing a new .NET application with forms, I can't think of any reason to use Visual-C++. If you have a lot of legacy C++ code that you'd like to port to .NET, then you might want to use Managed C++.

The book I bought is Visual C# .Net Step by Step Version 2003 by John Sharp and Jon Jagger. It seems like a really good introduction to programming Windows Forms with Visual C# in Visual Studio 2003.

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