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Introduction

assumptions

This book expects that you have some experience of programming in a high-level 

language, so that you are familiar with concepts such as functions and arrays.  It is quite 

sufficient to have experience in a procedural language such as Visual Basic, and I do not 

assume that you have any experience of object-oriented programming in general, or of 

C++ in particular (although any knowledge of a “curly bracket” language will be useful).

Who should not read this book

This book is not suitable for complete beginners to programming. For readers who are 

completely new to programming and want to learn C++, I recommend starting with 

a book such as Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup, 

published by Addison-Wesley.

This book is also not suitable for those who want to learn standard C++ or older-

style Win32 development, because it concentrates on two Microsoft variants (C++/CLI 

and C++/CX) and does not cover topics such as the CLR or MFC in any detail.

Organization of this book

This book is divided into four sections. 

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