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Dan Appleman's Win32 Api Puzzle Book and Tutorial for Visual Basic Programmers :
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Author: Dan Appleman
List Price: $39.95
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ISBN: 1893115011
Publisher: APress (March, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 40,074
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Excellent book!
If you use API's, or want to use API's, then I suggest getting this book. There are so many API calls out there, that no book contains them all. This book helps you solve the API so you can use them in your applications. Definately a "must have" for any programmer out there worth his salt.
Rating: 5 out of 5
An Excellent Companion
As a VB programmer you should have at least 2 books on yourshelf: Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 APIand this one. The former teaches by showing - serving as a reference book when you are trying enhance the functionality of your VB application. The latter teaches by doing - allowing your mind to actively grasp the concepts behind API calls, structures, and pointers, instead of mindlessly hacking through APIs, tossing in variables, hoping for success. The puzzles in this book allow you to learn from your mistakes. Mr. Appleman explains his own logic as he works through the problem. For me, this is more valuable than just being told the answer as many books in this genre do. This book is vital to help train a VB programmer to become a designer, rather than a developer. It helps you understand the importance of visualizing the solution to the problem before writing a single line of code. In sports they say that you need to visualize the goal before you actually play the game. I think the same goes for coding. This book is the ideal companion for that exercise. If you are a technical team lead, go ahead and assign these puzzles to your developers so that they can not only hone their skills, but also sharpen their minds. In addition, Mr. Appleman's writing style of light bantering and humor is a nice relief from the dry technical-journalistic writing of other Visual Basic authors. ...this book is not a cookbook...it can be better thought of as Ingredient Book. By understanding the fundamental ingredients towards cooking up a VB/WinAPI program, it helps you become a better chef. You need to understand what goes into a creation before you can anticipate what comes out. ...this book is not meant to serve as a comprehensive reference guide to the API. For that try Mr. Appleman's API book or Bock's Visual Basic 6 Win32 API Tutorial.. END
Rating: 4 out of 5
It is a useful book in programming
You cann't programming a good VB without it
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