Customer Reviews

Teach Yourself Owl Programming in 21 Days/Book and Disk (Teach Yourself in 21 Days)

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I learned Borland C++ OWL from this book. The book is thick and thorough. It takes a lot more than 21 days to complete this book if you follow along, type in all the examples and do all the exercises. Day 18 is a killer. I've read some of the other comments and beg to differ with the guy who rated this 1 star. All the code DOES compile, if it doesn't, it is because he typed it in WRONG. There are about 5 bugs in the book, the source code is available from the publisher's website.

Unless you have ALOT of free time (or some Window's programming experience), you may forget about the '21 day' part. This book is packed with info, with few sentences wasted. It is a very good intro to OWL, and it teaches some fundamentals of Window's programming to boot. After two weeks, I'm looking at commercial software and thinking....'I can do that....' Highly recommended.

I have tried out three OWL books so far, and this has been the best one BY FAR. Well worth it's price.

Teach Yourself OWL Programming In 21 Days has been the most comprehensive and complete book on OWL programming I have been able to find. The book covers everything from the basics of OWL/Windows programming to custom control development and data bases. I would recommend the book to all Borland C++ developers.

This book is absolutely terrible. The source code does NOT compile and it generates all sorts of errors. I am looking for an OWL Book that has good source code to learn from. Save your 40 bucks and don't buy this heap of garbage!!!!!! AND when you contact the publisher they tell you that they pulled the title from production!!!!! Why do they keep selling it then?????!!!!!!!!