Question

It would be a good learning experience to work these out yourself :).

I know that, but I really need the corrections. In addition, I'm a totally beginner.

my opinion is that book is a little bit advanced for a beginner. it assumes ur good at c to begin with and then gives some little crash courses in the c++ improvements then goes straight into a framework with a event handler and other things. it is a good book but not a beginners book. ive used that book a lot and never had problems with the source? which bit are you refering to?

Which compiler do you have?

When you work them out yourself you learn a great deal of things. I recently bought "Managed DirectX9 Kickstart" and it has some depecrated things used in its source, I easily fixed it and now I've memorized more of necessary elements.