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such as bitmaps and sounds to your programs. This is good stuff! Before long you’ll be doing
all these things on your own like a pro.
This week’s less-than-exciting material deals with more on C++Builder projects and how to
use the debugger. Those chapters might not be flashy, but they contain vital information that
you need when developing applications. It’s all about maximizing your time. Learning how
to use the debugger takes a few hours or even a few days, but it will save you weeks of work
in the long run. Trust me! If you know how to use the debugger, you can really get in there
and find out what is going wrong when you encounter a bug in your program. If you don’t
have a good handle on the debugger, I urge you to go back and review Day 11. As I said, the
debugger is not the most thrilling thing you will learn about in this book, but it will certainly
be one of the most valuable. Learning how to effectively use your projects falls into this same
category. Proper project management will save you time in the long run, too.
You ended the week with a look into database programming with C++Builder. Whether you
found that discussion exciting or boring depends to a large degree on what you plan to use
C++Builder for. If you are going to be using C++Builder for database programming, you
probably found it pretty interesting. Database programming is never simple, but C++Builder
makes it fairly painless. With the knowledge that you gained through the database chapters,x
you should be well on your way to database programming with C++Builder.