Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: This is not how people learn

As someone who is reasonably familiar with C++, but not with MFC and Visual Studio, I figured I could use this book to get me going with VC++ development. What a waste of time and money. The author decides against explaining what things do, and why things work the way they do. Instead, the examples consist of "type these cryptic symbols into this place in the code and voila--it works! Now--on to the next chapter." It is frustrating to find yourself wandering through chapter after chapter hoping that he'll explain what he's been doing. No such luck.Buy a different book.