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Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Thinking in Java (3rd Edition) Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Authors: Bruce Eckel Rating: 1/5  why repeat myself? It assumes you know C++, save yourself some money be reading some it online. It did not work for me, another door stop
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: LDAP System Administration Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Gerald Carter Rating: 1/5 The writer is not putting any attention on "Administration" which is the title of the book! You will only find how to deploy LDAP and basic understanding for LDAP - and that too at primitive level.I don't know how O'reilly can start such a project. You can tell this book as just a compilation of material already out there. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY for THIS BOOK. Seriously.-Kunal
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: STL Tutorial and Reference Guide: C++ Programming with the Standard Template Library (2nd Edition) Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: David R. Musser, Gillmer J. Derge, Atul Saini Rating: 4/5  John's reviews are interesting. While I agree with many of the points he makes, I disagree with some. And I found a few to be self-contradictory. He says, for instance, that "This is a good solid book that will get you up to speed quickly on all the important ideas in STL, and many of its basic usage idioms", but then naievely claims that "there aren't any higher level ideas than those presented here". Does the book cover only basic concepts, or is it that if the book doesn't cover it, it is not knowledge? The book is full of concrete examples. But my problem was that they were trivial. Reversing or sorting or finding characters within a string is great fun. But it doesn't help me understand who owns the memory within a container. Or how to directly and safely reference an element at an arbitrary position within a container outside of an iteration loop. A majority of the examples use trivial intrinsic datatypes for contained elements; how is using a struct or class different? All of those issues are important aspects of using the library, and not something I think a busy reader should leave to "a little imagination". While most of the disputed facts are eventually available in the text, they're not easy to find. The organization of the book isn't quite intuitive enough to make it a thoughtful reference or a breezy tutorial. And, in many cases, once found, they're not clear. John cited page 151 for an explanation of the differences between some of the collections. There, it says "With maps an multimaps, the data items are pairs of keys and data of some other type..." What's that mean? Two keys and data of some other type? Or a key and data of some other type? Does "pairs" mean "two", or an instance of the "pairs" utility class? The book really is missing information. None of the examples do any error checking whatsoever, and the exceptions that the templates throw aren't described. (Maybe, like priority queues, error handling was formalized after the book went to press. It is showing its age, and there's now a 2nd edition. I haven't purchased it.) It's ambitious to write a book that tries to serve as both a tutorial and the reference. (Me, I think it's just impossible.) This book does very well, but falls short of adequately completing either goal. I think that there's a bias against this book because it doesn't fit well with the way these reviewers would have liked to learn the subject at hand. I know that's where I landed. While true masters do indeed make it look simple, making it look simple doesn't help learning. Otherwise, we could all watch Tiger Woods for a few Sundays before taking home a Buick and a six-figure check.
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Title: Excel 2000 Formulas Publisher: Wiley Authors: John Walkenbach Rating: 4/5 I've been trying to do some advanced Excel work and was running into all sort of problems in terms of getting my pivot charts and formulas to work right. Some people, like me, need to see examples of formulas that do what it is they want to do in order to learn the right way of constructing these things. Excel 2000 Formulas is an excellent reference - for beginner to advanced users - who want to get the most out of Excel. You'll be doing advanced work in mins. with this resource.
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