Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!mtxinu!sybase!mercury!marc From: marc@mercury.sybase.com (I am Marc E. Strohwig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Who has read these books? Keywords: Books Message-ID: <5550@sybase.sybase.com> Date: 15 Aug 89 15:00:11 GMT References: <617@philtis.cft.philips.nl> Sender: news@sybase.sybase.com Reply-To: marc@mercury.UUCP (I am Marc E. Strohwig) Organization: Sybase, Inc. Lines: 23 I have read several books on OOPS and C++ and I'm sad to say I found 'User Interfaces in C++ and Object Oriented Programming' my least favorite. In my view the Book is little more than a bound set of C++ sources to a simple windowing system accompanied by a users guide. Of ~390 pages: 0 detail what OOPS is, 13 pages describe how the PC's display controller is setup, 25 pages give .asm listing and review MASM coding, 98 pages deal with C++ source to the windowing system, 37 pages list the source to a simple ledger using the windowing system and the remainder of the book is taken by appendix A & B which provide a user guide to the windowing system and a listing of the PC BIOS video services. No where is the OOPS paradigm or C++ philosphy event touched on. Thanx, _Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We don't guarantee, any work caused by or arising out of the failure of the owner to comply with instructions or recommendations." Marc E. Strohwig - "Opinions ?? Mine, mine, mine!!" Sybase, Inc. marc@sybase.com Emeryville, CA {pacbell, lll-tis, pyramid,sun}!sybase!marc