Learn the MFC C++ Classes : Using Microsoft Visual C++ 4, Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5, Symantec C++ 7, and Borland C++ 5

By Shirley Woodtke and Shirley Wodtke

This book teaches introductory programmers who are already familiar with object-oriented programming and C++ how to use the MFC library. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556225121
• ISBN13: 9781556225123
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.
• Length: 655 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 1.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

THIS IS THE BEST BOOK ABOUT MFC

FOR ME, THIS IS THE BEST BOOK ABOUT MFC..READING THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS I HAD LEARNED MORE THAN READING TEN CHAPTERS OF OTHERS BOOKS.THE AUTHOR'S IDEA, "ONE-IDEA-AT-A-TIME" IT'S THE BEST WAY TO GO FAST. AND NOW, I'M REALLY GOING FAST LEARNING MFC.OF COURSE THE BOOK NEEDS UPDATING TO VISUAL C++ 6.0, BUT IT'S VERY HELPFUL EVEN WITHOUT UPDATING.I HOPE MS. SHIRLEY WODTKE WRITE MORE BOOKS ABOUT MFC, OR WINDOWS PROGRAMMING IN GENERAL. I LIKE HER STYLE OF WRITING.SHE EXPLAINS VERY CLEARLY DIFFICULT CONCEPTS.EDUARDOSPAIN

This Book Does What It Claims To Do...

Learn the MFC C++ Classes does exactly what it claims to do-- it is beginners book on MFC. I only had a little bit of understanding of MFC, but Ms Wodtke's book helped me to understand the basic foundation classes so much better. She has a very simple approach. I appreciate this and found her book to be very valuable in learning more about the library of MFC classes. I now feel comfortable editing the code.It is sad to see that some of her students are frustrated by the fact that they cannot grasp the basic concepts of MFC in Wodtke's book. They seem to be pretty upset by this. I have read Prosises and Kruglinski's books, and if you cannot understand Wodtke's book then I don't think that these books will make it any clearer.

THE Place to start learning MFC / Visual C++

I've always wanted to get to grips with VC++/MFC (and Windows programming in general), but have each time managed to get derailed just because of the ridiculous approach most books take to get you started - with AppWizard generated code and 'to-do' lists. I thought I could write more-than-adequate code in C++, and I found it deeply distressing that I just couldn't get the hang of MFC - I never felt the generated code was 'mine' - and I didn't know what I could delete, what I could amend - what each part of the program was responsible for - I'd just end up cursing Microsoft for coming out with such a messy library and such a lousy programming model. Enter Shirley Wodtke's book - and life is good again ! Okay so it doesn't have the level of detail of say Kruglinski, but thats what was called for. That said, I hope the next edition covers a little bit of Multithreaded programming and some network programming.

I find this book very effective for intended audience.

This book can in no way teach any one about developing professional level applications. It is rather focused at familiarizing the readers with conepts at a very elementry level. I dont think any professional programmer in the world would think of developing robust and efficient application by reading such elementry book. Miss Wodtke has been very successful in writing this book to teach the ABC's of MFC and windows applications to the very beginners of windows programming. The good thing about this book is that it is not time consuming at all. Person with basic knowledge can read this book in just a week and get the flavour of fundamental concepts in a very simple effective way. The clarity and flow of the book is very well paced. I would strongly recomend this book before turning to Jeff Prosis,Mike Blaszczak or Kruglinski.

Definitely does not deserve the bad reveiws.

Miss Wodtkes book does not cover the complete MFC, that is true, there is no mention of the OLE, Synchronisation and Internet classes but then this is the book which fresh MFC programmers go to, before going to Jeff Prosise or a David Kruglinsky. This is the book which which says that it covers certain things( at the back of the cover though) and does just that, definitely there are no stories for entertaining the reader. The earlier reviews are filled with her ex-students who are totally biased( what Miss Wodtke does in her classes is not the topic under review). The book has quite a few Typo errors, I am sure Miss Wodtke agrees. All the Example programs provided in the books compile and Run well on Windows95( VC 4.2 as well as 5). The readers are advised to go through the chapter on the IDE where the author has told users what to do in the settings. The book is not a course on Exception handling (Even the best books don't touch this in their programs, the underlying wrapped API's are supposed to handle them), All the most frequently used classes and functions of the MFC(the common controls is a highlight here), the tick-tack example with complete splitter is one of the fastest for the beginner to get into real programming. The The Document-View Architecture covered is one of the best for a beginner, The book is available for a heavily discounted price in India(It is definitely worth the price). Unfortunately, this is a book which almost everyone has gone through but feels ashamed to admit(ofcourse, there are books which readers don't even bother to lay their hands on).Some readers would rather show that they grasped everything from the bigger books at the first go(so much for vanity!!!).