BOOK REVIEW
Book Title: Win32 Programming	Publisher: Addison Wesley
Author(s): Brent E. Rector, Joseph M. Newcomer	ISBN 0201634929

Category					Rating
LEGEND:	5=Excellent	4=Good	3=Standard	2=Fair	1=Poor
Overall recommendation					4
Quality of organization					4
Easy to read and navigate					3
Sufficient quantity of examples					4
Examples are error free					4
Reuse for reference					3
Quality of index					4

Summary Review

The book has a very good foundation for the development of Win32 applications and system programming. However the book is almost 32 years on and basically was a refresher course for my Win32 Programming skills. I found the book to have many well established examples and definitely could be used as a reference. The CD provided with the book is loaded with lots of good code examples.

Detailed Comments 

This book is not for the newcomer, in order to get good information from the book you should have some good experience in both software programming and some experience with operating systems in general. The book is highly technical and may require the reader to sometimes re-read items in order to totally understand them. The book listings and explanations through tables and figures were very helpful, I must admit that without those tables and figures it would have been much more difficult for me to understand many of the technical items conveyed in the book. Since the book is old it does not help with the latest Windows systems XP/Win2K. It would have been nice to have a book that covers those operating systems as well. I had the chance to try a few of the book examples (to many to try all) and found that they all were working fine. I did find the book a bit hard to navigate through; It may be due to the quantity of information or what I felt was a very small font size which made the book feel a bit crowded.

Reviewer:

Michael Shaya

Date:

01/12/03