Customer Reviews

Programming the Windows 32 API and UNIX System Services (With CD-ROM)

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Would you buy a book on system programming from someone who doesn't even know his implementation language? This guy's examples are all in C++, but he can't even get a "for" loop right.

Sample code from chapter 1:

volatile UINT ktr[3] = {0,0,0};

...

// Create three threads

for (i=0;i<=3;i++)

Yep, and he does this time and time again. Apparently Example 1-3 caused a GPF when he actually ran it, so he fixed that by adding an extra element to the array.

Whole chunks of code in the book wouldn't even compile. Example 4-1 uses "=" instead of "==" and turns a function call into an lvalue.

I gave it a one star because there is no "zero" star.

This book helped me understand better. This book was easy to read and understand. I would recommend this book for anyone trying to get in the business.