Getting Started with Qt 5

Description was a little deceiving, doesn't really show you how to develop cross platform. But still worth the purchase

I new nothing about Qt5 before I got this book. After working the 6 chapters in it, I am designing my own GUI and even creating, updating and using MySQL databases in C++.This book is a great introduction and you will come away with a basic understanding of Qt5. If you want to advance to more features and a better understanding, you can supplement this book with one that goes into greater detail, like the Qt5 Cookbook or the Mastering Qt5 book.If you are not versed in C++, then this book will not help you with the C++ code. You need to be at least an intermediate level (understand the "this" pointer and other object-oriented principles) to carry the knowledge gained forward.

Why learn Qt? It seems a nice visual programming language on linux, especially for the Raspberry Pi.- So why write GUI's by hand, when you can build them in Qt? Why isn't this shown in this book?- The most important and basic parts in any programming language is INPUT / do something with it /OUTPUT. Why isn't this covered?- You should have knowledge of C++. Yes, I have, 30 years. Why isn't the connection between Qt and C++ covered?I'm missing structure in this book. To make an analogy with a baby. You would like to run, while the baby isn't sitting up. This must be generation gap.