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Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: Programming Windows With MFC Publisher: Microsoft Press Authors: Jeff Prosise Rating: 5/5  This is the best MFC book ever. Conversational style, and authoritative reference. He puts logic into the nonsensical, and starts slow (no appwizard shtuff and confusion until chapter 4) so everyone can understand. In chapter 4, he slowly walks you through your first simple program involving Visual C++ 6.0's mfc appwizard. This book was made for those who have no clue about the MFC tutorials (95% of those who use Visual C 6.0) in the MSDN library, but yet want to understand MFC someday. However, know your inheritance of classes in C++ before reading. Reading Programming Windows 5th Edition by Charles Petzold before this isn't a bad idea either, but it isn't required, it just makes a much greater appreciation of MFC. MFC still doesn't stand totally on it's own without the win32 API either, but it comes pretty close. The last word of warning is that it is geared to the Visual C 6.0 compiler. So for those with Insprise, you aren't out of luck (it facilitates understanding 1000% still), just some of the stuff about using appwizards (which, come in handy) isn't going to apply to you. Prosise makes compensation for those with other compilers. At the end, he goes into a pretty good COM ActiveX, and OLE tutorial (and how they apply to MFC) but nothing huge (a mere 220 pages).
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: David Flanagan Rating: 5/5 Put simply, it is the definitive guide. This book starts with the basics of the language and then progresses through each individual piece of it in detail. It takes the time to point out the differences in implementation between browsers, which is very helpful, especially when using the book as a reference during debugging. The only thing I found lacking in the book were short, easy to understand examples of the language in action. While it does have enough code snippets in it to illustrate the general points, it does not show some of the more interesting parts of the language.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Beginning ASP Databases Publisher: Wrox Press Authors: John Kauffman, Kevin Spencer, Thearon Willis, John Kauffman Rating: 5/5 Beginning ASP Databases is perfect for those of us who are front end developers and are looking for back end talent. How quickly and easily one can obtain knowlege of ASP using this book is amazing, as is the salary increase you will receive with SQL and ASP experience. WROX rocks, all their books I own are great. Why do other publishers waste my time when we have WROX?
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification: A Comprehesive Primer, Second Edition Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Khalid Mughal, Rolf Rasmussen Rating: 5/5 This book definately helped me pass the test. It is very understandable, thorough and has good examples, questions and assignments. Its a very good book overall. The practice test has a few errors if you take it out of the book. For some reason I was expecting the practice test in the book and the test included on the CD to be different so I did the book test first. I would have liked them to have been different so that I had more practice. I suggest that the test on the cd be taken so as to simulate the actually test environment. One thing I felt was not explained well enough was overriding the hashcode() method. This is only a minor gripe though and that subject may only come up in 1 or 2 out of 61 questions.
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