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Visual C/C++
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By: Jim McCarthy
Price: $24.95 (Canada $33.95)
Length: 232 pages
ISBN: 1-55615-823-8
This book contains the candid collected wisdom of Jim McCarthy, a software industry veteran and the director of the Microsoft Visual C++ development group. Dynamics of Software Development offers practical advice on how to create great software products, produce them on a reasonable schedule, and launch and market them successfully. The book is divided into five sections that chart the progress from initial design to successful products:
Opening Moves--discusses the process of designing the product, creating a market strategy,
and pulling together a development team
The Middle Game--examines the development process
Ship Mode--describes the state of the process necessary to refine the product toward its
ultimate goal
The End Game--discusses issues involved in bringing ship mode to fruition
The Launch--explains how to successfully refine and communicate your marketing messages
Throughout, McCarthy expresses his sometimes controversial judgments in witty, memorable maxims.
By: Steve Maguire
Price: $24.95 ($32.95 Canada)
Length: 216 pages
ISBN: 1-55615-650-2
Practical strategies for staying focused, hitting ship dates, and building solid teams. The author of Writing Solid Code takes a compelling look at the people who develop the code, and the group dynamics behind the scenes in the software development process. Steve Maguire draws on his real-world experience at Microsoft for candid accounts of how he brought together and maintained effective teams to develop timely, high-quality applications.
By: Steve McConnell
Price: $35.00 ($44.95 Canada)
Length: 880 pages
ISBN: 1-55615-484-4
"I know of no other text which compares and contrasts the major design approaches in as clear a way . . . [and] collects in one place such a wide body of practical ideas and methods. I would highly recommend your book to any and all software developers."--Pre-publication review, University of Washington
This practical handbook of software construction covers the art and science of software development. Examples are provided in C, Pascal, Basic, FORTRAN, and Ada, but the focus is on programming techniques. Topics include: up-front planning, applying good design techniques to construction , using data effectively, reviewing for errors, managing construction activities and, relating personal character to the development of superior software.
By: Steve Maguire
Price: $24.95 ($32.95 Canada)
Length: 286 pages
ISBN: 1-55615-551-4
Written by a former Microsoft developer, this book takes on the problem of bugs by carefully examining the development process and the places developers typically make mistakes. Maguire provides practical solutions for detecting mistakes before they become costly problems. Packed with examples of how bugs are caught at Microsoft and how readers can use proven programming techniques to make software reliable--and ship on time!
By: Peter Norton, Peter Aitken, and Richard Wilton
Price: $29.95 ($39.95 Canada)
Length: 632 pages
ISBN: 1-55615-555-7
"A must for every serious PC user's library."--PC Magazine
The updated edition of The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC and PS/2, the classic bestseller that taught hundreds of thousands of programmers the key concepts in IBM PC and MS-DOS programming. This edition covers the fundamental concepts of modern PC hardware, MS-DOS system calls, essential ROM BIOS services, and graphical programming with Windows, Windows NT, and MS-DOS.
By: Thom Hogan
Price: $39.95 ($54.95 Canada)
Length: 808 pages
ISBN: 1-55615-321-X
A unique compilation of critical technical information for Microsoft Windows through version 3, MS-DOS through version 5, IBM PCs and compatibles and PS/2 systems, and EISA-based systems. Presents, in hundreds of easily used charts and tables, important factual data published in scores of technical and user references. Also includes information about older systems.
By: Thom Hogan
Price: $39.95 ($53.95 Canada)
Length: 528 pages with one 3.5" disk
ISBN: 1-55615-641-3
Here is all the information you need to exploit PC video capabilities to produce fast, professional, stunning video effects. Author Richard Wilton demonstrates the fundamental programming skills of coding, testing, and debugging, plus lean, efficient algorithms and the techniques to make them come alive as software. The accompanying disk includes the source code samples from the book.
System requirements:
Either Microsoft C/C++ version 7.0 or later and Microsoft MASM version 6.0 or later or
Borland C++ version 4.0 or later and Borland TASM version 4.0 or later
Approximately 1.7 MB of hard disk space
VGA or SVGA video adapter and a compatible display recommended
By: Nigel Thompson
Length: 288 pages, with one CD-ROM
Price: $34.95 ($46.95 Canada)
ISBN: 1-55615-669-3
Learn to create sprite-based animation, from bitmaps to full animation scenes, in Windows 95 and Windows NT with ANIMATION TECHNIQUES IN WIN32. Author Nigel Thompson, a leading writer for the Microsoft Developer Network, uses Visual C++ to build sample applications that generate animated computer images. Thompson's approach is object oriented: he streamlines the process of creating a graphics engine by using the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) to take care of the tasks all Windows applications have in common, and he derives from MFC classes a set of C++ classes that implement an animation engine. As the book progresses, you'll develop a set of C++ classes to deal with device-independent bitmaps, palettes, sprites, and sounds. The sample code includes a static-link library built from the C++ classes developed in the book; you can use this library to create your own applications.
By: David J. Kruglinski
Price: $39.95 ($67.95 Canada)
Length: 705 pages, softcover with one CD-ROM
ISBN: 1-55615-661-8
Now updated to cover Visual C++ version 1.5, this book covers OLE, ODBC enhancements, and Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library version 2.5. This is the foundation book for Visual C++ developers programming in Windows. Through fast-paced examples, this book takes readers from the basics through the advanced capabilities of this rich programming environment, while explaining the methodologies and the tools. The CD-ROM includes all the source code files necessary to create the sample programs in the book.
By: Microsoft Corporation
This six volume collection is the complete printed product documentation for the Microsoft Visual C++ development system version 2.0. Each volume draws its information from the substantial online help system in Microsoft Visual C++ and collects it in conveniently organized, appropriate volumes. In book form this information is portable, easy to access and browse, and readable. And, though the volumes are consecutively numbered, you have the additional convenience and savings of buying only the volumes you need, when you need them.
Start with the Microsoft Visual C++ User's Guide, your first source for information on using the Visual C++ development environment and the rich visual and command line tools in version 2.0. Then, move to Programming with MFC, the comprehensive guide to object-oriented programming procedure and techniques on using the Microsoft Foundation Class Library. The Microsoft Foundation Class Library Reference is the Microsoft Visual C++ developer's bible, a complete listing and description of all the functions, parameters, and source code examples in the Microsoft Foundation Class Library version 3.0.
The Microsoft Visual C++ Run-Time Library Reference and the Microsoft Visual C++ Language Reference are two familiar, tried-and-true volumes updated to include version 2.0 information, that have been mainstays of every serious developer's library for years. And last, but not least there is the Microsoft OLE Custom Control Developer's Kit User's Guide and Reference, the source for information on building custom controls in Microsoft Visual C++ versions 1.5 and 2.0.
ISBN 1-55615-794-0
$168.70 (224.70 Canada)
By: Microsoft Corporation
Price: $24.95 ($32.95 Canada) Length: 520 pages
ISBN: 1-55615-800-9
By: Microsoft Corporation
Price: $29.95 ($39.95 Canada) Length: 792 pages
ISBN: 1-55615-802-5
By: Microsoft Corporation
Price: $44.95 ($59.95 Canada) Length: 1320 pages
ISBN: 1-55615-801-7
By: Microsoft Corporation
Price: $22.95 ($30.95 Canada) Length: 624 pages
ISBN: 1-55615-803-3
By: Microsoft Corporation
Price: $22.95 ($30.95 Canada) Length: 760 pages
ISBN: 1-55615-804-1
By: Microsoft Corporation
Price: $22.95 ($29.95 Canada) Length: 448 pages
ISBN: 1-55615-805-X
By: Augie Hansen
Price: $39.95 ($54.95 Canada)
Length: 384 pages, with three 360-KB 5.25" disks
ISBN: 1-55615-130-6
The highly acclaimed, integrated system designed to make C programming fun and easy to learn. The three disks contain: an online tutorial featuring detailed information on using the Learn C compiler, an overview of C programming, lessons, tips, and techniques, Learn C in-memory compiler, based on Microsoft QuickC (does everything QuickC does except create executable files) and, scores of sample programs.
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