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Introduction to Windows? and Graphics Programming with Visual C++ .Net [With CDROM]

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This year I decided to brush-up on my programming skills. I purchased a copy of visual C++ and a couple of books on C++ programing. After a few days of dealing with cat and dog objects I was bored. Then I came upon this book - with its fast pace and easy to understand examples my interest was regenerated. It takes you from "Hello World" to programming using windows with graphics in about 200 pages (a third of the way through the book) or in time, just a coupe of days!

As an ex-engineer with some C experience I found the book doesn't over complicate the subject and enables you to get to results quickly. Obviously the book is missing some details, but you can use your other less interesting C++ books to fill those gaps.

This is a very interesting and informative book. I would recommend it for anyone interested in adding graphics to programs. I used it with Visual C++ 6 which made following the examples a little more difficult, but haf no problems creating the programs. My only complaint is that, in many places, the author expects the reader to just load and run the program examples from the included CD-ROM, rather than stepping through the program creation. I find this to be an ineffective way to learn. Overall it's well worth buying, though.