visual basic

What drives me to write my first online review here are frustration and anger. The book makes learning MFC so hard, far harder than it supposes to be. I confessed that when selected the book I overlooked some reviews here: the first part about C++ is well written but the 2nd part about MFC is terribly bad. The reviewers told the truth. I felt that apparently the author didn't know MFC well, so he could not explain it clearly. TO COVER THIS WEAKNESS, COMPLICATED EXAMPLES WERE USED.--This is cheating. Here is a words for the author: why don't you stop at C++ and keep your fame as a best seller author, why do you want to do something out of your ability, so ugly? This book should be cut into two parts and sold seperately as two books, one in C++ the other in MFC. The first book would still be best seller, the other worst seller. I feel sorry to my students for using this book as textbook (for MFC part). Here is a word for potential buyer: don't use this book to start your MFC programming, use Microsoft Mastering Visual C++ instead, which is really excellent. Send me eamil. - Jason CNE, MCP, holder of BSCS and MSCS

I found this book very usefull, detailed and you can use as a reference, the book always reminds you with past experience gained from previous chapters and thus allows you to read a specific topic/chapter. also it demonstrated deep knowledge of the subject covered

Ivor Horton has an exceptional talent for organizing and presenting C++ that makes it easy to learn. This is a very difficult lanuage, but if you persist, you will learn with his book. It is the best C++ learner book I have found. He leads you through each chapter expanding on the previous. It is slow going at first because you need to know so many things to begin programming. It becomes easy after you get half way through the book and all the pieces of the puzzle start coming together.