Ebook: Foundations of Qt® Development (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

Recently I decided that I wanted to learn C++ GUI programming in Windows for real-time application/graphics programming.
Native C++ provides the control necessary to optimize such systems so I wanted to avoid the slower .NET.
I started learning MFC since that is what we currently use in-house, but found that MFC GUI programming is not intuitive at all.
Since Microsoft is pushing .NET, there aren't many current books on MFC programming using native C++.
Moreover, it's also confusing since all of the C++ documentation/examples are buried in the .NET documentation so it's easy to go astray.
(Using name C++ for .NET programming (C++/CLI) makes things confusing)

I am now 70% of the way through this book and very impressed with it.
Not only is the book well written, but the author really knows the material and the examples are right on target.
(Very few wasted pages)
This book covers a lot of very important aspects of Qt programming.
Not only am I impressed with the book/author but also with the Qt programming language.
I've programmed in C, C++, Java, IDL, and FORTRAN and Qt seems to incorporate the best ideas from these languages.
This book made it so easy to pick up GUI programming and the bonus is that the applications run on multiple platforms.

The only minor negative is that some of the examples in the book are a bit incomplete or have minor errors. If your following along, most of these are easy to fill in/fix, but if you get stuck, all of the source code for the examples is available online.

Since the book does not contain an introduction to C++, all the material is focused on Qt development. I think this was the correct decision because there are plenty of good books out there for learning C++.

I would buy this book again in a heartbeat.

Thanks to all of the previous reviews, since they were an important factor in me buying this book.

Jeff