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Title: Visual Basic 6 Win32 API Tutorial by Jason Bock ISBN: 1-86100-243-2 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 06 November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Some usefulness but overal nothing totaly practical..
Comment: I can honestly say after doing about 80% of the examples in this book, that I found only about 20% of the stuff useful. And of all the stuff I learned I can honestly say that it did not make my understanding of API's more clear.
To me API is something you have to spend some time with. And it is hard cause unlike picking some new control and just figuring out what it does by its properties and methods, API's aren't something you can quickly grasp (IMHO) by playing with them.
I didn't like the 'I will explain what all this does later', concept either as one reviewer mentioned. If your going to write out tonnes of code explain it all before you move on. This book doesn't do that. ALSO DON'T throw pages of code and more pages and then explain what it all does.
DO IT IN SMALL CHUNKS!! Any developer who writes tonnes and tonnes of code and then tests his/her program is nuts. Take it in small steps. The book doesn't do this and I feel that was its greatest fault.
I'd write this huge routine and sure it would work, but I'd be saying to myself "what do these 2 lines here at the beggining with the API call do exactly".. Then I am coding more and then the concept is atempted to be explained to me in its entirity.. And I am sitting there "What the hell did I just do?"
Well that's my 2 cents. The good thing is source code is available from the publishers web site, and what errors there are in the book are easy to see.. nothing huge (that is unless you are really new to VB then u shouldn't be using this book first). However, the mutex example was VERY helpful and I have it in one application already. I know what it does but I don't really understand its mechanics... And I think that's how I feel about this book in the nutshell.
Got some usefull code (not a lot) but API is still a mystery to me.... There's propably something better out there..
Rating: 4
Summary: A *must* for every Windows BASIC programmer
Comment: As good as Daniel Appleman's book is, I guess most publishers and authors felt writing a competing book wasn't worth the effort. Thanks goodness neither the author, nor Wrox felt that way.
This book is not a replacement for Appleman's book. But it sure is a lot easier to read and makes a great companion. It's better organized, allowing you to search for API entries based on the type of task you want to overcome.
This is the author's first effort, so it's only 360+ pages. Not bad. If I were to offer one complaint, it would be that there is no companion CDROM. At $40 (retail), it's odd for a computer book not to include one.
Rating: 3
Summary: Extremely Boring to Read but Excellent Content
Comment: The contents of the book deserves a five-star rate, but the extremely boring explanations of the author made me downgraded it to a mere 3-star rate.
I started to read the book -approximately four months ago- very excited because the contents of the book is something that has always interested me.
After maybe twelve to fifteen pages, I had to stop reading it because the absolute boredom the author transmits with his explanations of the theme.
I overcame that boredom and continued to read.
The book has excellent examples with which to learn the API from; and the author's knowledge is undeniably outstanding.
I have not been able to finish the book yet because the annoying way the author explains -as a consequence, my learning of the API/VB is still truncated.
However, my proposition is to finish the book because, I know, needed knowledge will come from it.
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Title: Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API by Dan Appleman ISBN: 0672315904 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic Developer's Guide to the Win32 API by Steve Brown ISBN: 078212559X Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Dan Appleman's Win32 Api Puzzle Book and Tutorial for Visual Basic Programmers : by Dan Appleman ISBN: 1893115011 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Subclassing & Hooking with Visual Basic by Stephen Teilhet ISBN: 0596001185 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic by Steven Roman ISBN: 1565926315 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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