The book is padded from cover to cover with a dump of the API text file! No body in their right mind would type a long API declaration when they can copy it from the API viewer. Hundreds of pages wasted just to make it look like a computer book (2.5 inches). What there is left is very poorly documented and the examples are useless from a learning standpoint. I suspect the 5 star rating by another reader was one of the books authors using a Hotmail account ...