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5.0 out of 5 stars 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...

Published on March 17, 2000 by Rick Alther

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1.0 out of 5 stars 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 !
Published on January 21, 2000 by Dan Fly


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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THE Book on programming with IBM's OCL, March 17, 2000
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This review is from: Power GUI Programming with Visual Age (TM) for C++ (Paperback)
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).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Setting the record straight, January 23, 2004
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This review is from: Power GUI Programming with Visual Age (TM) for C++ (Paperback)
Some of those other reviews are completely off base. This is a great book, albeit targetting a very narrow, and arguably irrelevant, subject matter.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Money !, January 21, 2000
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This review is from: Power GUI Programming with Visual Age (TM) for C++ (Paperback)
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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1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Money !, January 21, 2000
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Dan Fly (the US of A) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Power GUI Programming with Visual Age (TM) for C++ (Paperback)
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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1 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars My Review, August 2, 1999
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I have never read this book I just wanted to be the first one to review it. Now I am. Ha Ha Ha!
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