Which is the best book for Qt Essentials?

[Seba84]

Hello everyone!

I am interested in preparing the Qt Essentials Cerificate and for that I would like to buy a book (only one or maximum two). I saw the books that are listed "here":http://qt.nokia.com/learning/certification/exams/preparation-prerequisites/qt-curriculum/qt-essentials/materials, these are:

C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4, 1st and 2nd Edition, by Jasmin Blanchette, Mark Summerfield.

Foundations of Qt Development, by Johan Thelin

An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4, by Alan Ezust, Paul Ezust

The Book of Qt 4: The Art of Building Qt Applications by Daniel Molkentin

But apparently no one treats completelly all the exam's subjects. Could you tell me (if you know them) which is the best ?

Thanks in advance!
Sebastian

[broadpeak]

The first book (in your list) is the most informative, but the second book is the best written.

I've read all of them, I think you should do the same.
Every book has advantage and some minimal disadvantage.

Much better: read all of the emphasized chapters of these books. That WILL BE enough for the exam! The exam itself is not so difficult.

[Seba84]

Thanks broadpeak!

Finally I found all of them on the net...
So no need to choose only one of them.

Bye!

[Rahul Das]

[[doc:Object Model]]
[[doc:Reentrancy and Thread-Safety]]
[[doc:The Property System]]
[[doc:Inter-Process Communication in Qt]]
[[doc:Programming with Qt]]
[[doc:Threads and QObjects]]
[[doc:The Qt Resource System]]
[[doc:Paint System]]
[[doc:Coordinate System]]
[[doc:Internationalization with Qt]]
[[doc:Container Classes]]
[[doc:Implicit Sharing]]
[[doc:The Event System]]
[[doc:Signals]]
[[doc:ObjectTrees]]
[[doc:The Meta-Object System]]
[[doc:Qt Features Overview]]
[[doc:Scalability]]

Found these links useful than book for quick ref.

[rsjethani]

[quote author="Rahul Das" date="1326648873"][[doc:Object Model]]
[[doc:Reentrancy and Thread-Safety]]
[[doc:The Property System]]
[[doc:Inter-Process Communication in Qt]]
[[doc:Programming with Qt]]
[[doc:Threads and QObjects]]
[[doc:The Qt Resource System]]
[[doc:Paint System]]
[[doc:Coordinate System]]
[[doc:Internationalization with Qt]]
[[doc:Container Classes]]
[[doc:Implicit Sharing]]
[[doc:The Event System]]
[[doc:Signals]]
[[doc:ObjectTrees]]
[[doc:The Meta-Object System]]
[[doc:Qt Features Overview]]
[[doc:Scalability]]

Found these links useful than book for quick ref.[/quote]

Links go to error pages...

[Rahul Das]

oops.. sorry

"object model":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/object.html

"Reentrancy and Thread-Safety":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/threads-reentrancy.html

"The Property System":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/properties.html

"Inter-Process Communication in Qt":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/ipc.html

"
Programming with Qt":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/qt-basic-concepts.html

"Threads and QObjects":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/threads-qobject.html

"The Qt Resource System
":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/resources.html

"Paint System":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/paintsystem.html

"Coordinate System":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/coordsys.html

"Internationalization with Qt":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/internationalization.html

"Container Classes":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/containers.html

"Implicit Sharing":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/implicit-sharing.html

"The Event System":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/eventsandfilters.html

"Signals":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/signalsandslots.html

"ObjectTrees":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.7/objecttrees.html

"The Meta-Object System":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/metaobjects.html

"Qt Features Overview":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/qt-overview.html

"Scalability":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.7/scalability.html

[fguimaraes]

Great list, thanks Rahul!

[broadpeak]

This is a very good list Rahul!
It would be ideal that this information can be reached in PDF format :)

[dangelog]

The devnet site actually HAS a PDF engine, f.i. you can export wiki pages to PDF, although it does a horrible job with code snippets...:
http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/pdf/Threads_Events_QObjects

You could ask as a feature request to having that PDF export in the documentation as well. :-)

[Seba84]

Thanks for the list Rahul!

[Rahul Das]

I am glad that those links are found to be useful. Anyway, that is theory side. But for coding practices, i felt, C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4, 2nd Edition, by Jasmin Blanchette, Mark Summerfield is the best.

[Blizzard]

Foundations of Qt Development (Johan Thelin) was the most informative book I have read on Qt. I found a lot of information in other materials to be out of date. This book also goes into integrating with openGL, using QtSql for databases, multi-threading, unit testing, and networking.

[shoyeb]

thanx for the link rahul....

[Blizzard]

Thank Rahul, great list!

[VijayalakshmiSundaravaradhan]

Can anyone who has got this certificate tell whether it is worth the money paid? It costs around 8000 rupees in India.

[Ratzz]

@VijayalakshmiSundaravaradhan

Which Qt Certifications you are taking about https://www.qt.io/qt-certification/#block-5?

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