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Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Microsoft Office 2000 Introductory Concepts and Techniques Enhanced Publisher: Course Technology Authors: Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman, Misty E. Vermaat Rating: 5/5  The book is great but it is written for people who never had experience with computers. So I would advise anyone to skip those intial chapters. I highly recommend getting the spiral bound edition because the book is about the size of a major city's Yellow Pages and it is easier to handle. The screen-by-screen instruction is terrific but of course, I ignore directions such as (open window, hit save, etc..). The lessons at the end of each project allow you to perform the lessons that you just learned. I would advise that you download the lessons on your computer instead of to a disk like the book recommends. Since I was just laid off, the book is great for brushing up on programs that you don't really use on a daily basis. I am planning to get the advanced versions of the book very soon.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Programming .NET Components Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Juval Lowy Rating: 5/5 This is the best book I've ever read in this industry. If you are doing .NET, want to learn from where Microsoft leaves off, and have more than a couple of years experience just buy it.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Writing Effective Use Cases Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Alistair Cockburn Rating: 4/5  'A Use Case is a prose essay' -- great summary, from a great book. I've been meaning to read this book again. I learned how to write use cases while reading this book. The value comes through right there. This book was not as easy to read as I would have liked, but it takes a difficult topic and provides enough usable material to master it. I'm not certain an easy "for dummies" style book is possible, or appropriate. Minus half a star. The problem with use cases, is that it's an extremely general term that means a lot of specific things to different people. Even with this book, I had to have my co-workers review my format, to establish what conventions to use. What I found extremely useful, given the complexity of the topic, is that the author presented a number of flexable approaches to developing a use case, stating that the environment and subject matter would determine what details needs to be preserved. The author uses a confusing visual notation in addition to section headers, which I think would strengthen the book by it's absence. I'm not familar with UML, and some degree of UML knowledge is tacitly expected. That was easy to look past. I gave this book four stars, because I think a better book on Use Cases is possible. However, from what I have seen, this is the best one out there.
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: The Protocols (TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1) Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: W. Richard Stevens Rating: 5/5 This series is a must have for TCP/IP programmers and network administrators.
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