Personaly I recommend Ivor Horton's other book Beginning Visual C++ 6. Beginning Visual C++ 6 is very good book. It covers everything one needs to know for a solid understanding of C++ language. Not a short tutorial, it covers literaly every fundermental concept and reinforces it with good examples and important tips. Beginning C++ is longer true but the extra concepts can be easily grasped by using MSDN

The second half of the book teaches one to write windows programs with the MFC. The tutorial is very nice as the reader writes a complex drawing program over several chapters. Really makes you feel having accompoloshed something.

It also gives a short primer on Win32 programming. So in one book the reader learns a comprehensive deal about both C++ and windows programming. Personaly I started with zero C++ knowledge and Beginning Visual C++ 6 did a good job at teaching me.

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