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Title: SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Michael J. Hernandez, John L. Viescas Rating: 5/5  This book has helped me to finally understand how to get information back out of my databases. The Comp. Sci. program I'm in teaches how to build a relational database, but then just glosses over SQL Queries. I now have a much better understanding of subqueries, joins, and SQL in general. After finishing this book, I feel I can retrieve any information I need to get with little trouble.
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Title: The Non-Designer's Design Book, Second Edition Publisher: Peachpit Press Authors: Robin Williams Rating: 5/5 I never learned so much from a book. I immediately re-designed some stuff that we have on hold right now and it looks so much better now. I don't need anything else.
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Title: Programming & Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Authors: Myke Predko Rating: 4/5  I believe that Myke does have a very clear understaning of the PicMcu however, the book is rather confusing and hard to understand. It has very Good info other than the fact that he spent too much time explaining the architecture of the processor when he should be explaining the foundamental stuff. It is very difficult for someon that is new to microcontroller to understand. Also the exmaple codes are in in Assembly language rather than C or Basic which I would have prefered. Another problem is that the programer isn't working, so you might want to just buy the Warp 13a which is by far the best programmer i have seen. It can literally program all of the PicMcus avaiable except for the Pic17 family. I would strongly recommend buying the Programming Robot Controller, which is also another book by Myke. The only differences are that, it is basically a decrypted version of this book, containing sample codes in C language.
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Title: Designing Embedded Hardware Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: John Catsoulis Rating: 5/5 I assume I'm the real target reader for this book. I've been programming microprocessors and microcontrollers for 20+ years now, but I'm a hardware dunce. The book starts pretty much from Square 1 of simple electronics. The challenge of writing such chapters is to remember what it's like for a raw novice. An author should explain things and not skip ahead. What I really wanted this book for was the chapter on simple Electronics rather than all the rest. It could use work. Current is represented in equations as "I". The author neglects to mention that. He just springs it on you in an equation. He also doesn't explain how he got the formula for the voltage divider. It's presented as some "magic" formula where he should taken just a few more steps to show how he got the formula (Ohm's Law, plus the bit about current in R1 and R2 being equal). Some of his other descriptions seem vague and incomplete (like inductors). That being said, I did learn stuff from that chapter so it was helpful. I have a feeling many professionals are skipping this chapter and moving on to the meatier ones on how to hook stuff up, so their ratings are higher. There's some sage advice in the book (like disabling the brown-out voltage reset on 3.3V PICs as they are set at 4 volts!). The emphasis is totally on hardware. You won't find any code listings for playing with the devices once it's hooked up, but that should be no problem for the intended audience. But if you were ever sitting there with a microcontroller in one hand and a DC motor on the other and wanting to know how to hook it all up, this is a good book for it.
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