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Title: Mastering Windows XP Professional Publisher: Sybex Inc Authors: Mark Minasi Rating: 5/5  Mark Minasi is a great writer, with the ability to take a complex subject, like Windows XP, and make it fairly readable. This book is typical of the "Mastering" series, however, and is not intended for light weights. If you are a home or private user, you may be better served with something akin to the "Windows for Dummies" variety. I'm not trying to be condescending, just realistic. This book is highly detailed and goes well beyond the average users needs. However, the first 89 pages of this book present a color plated introduction to using XP, which I found very helpful and better than most related products on the market. The first 89 pages alone are worth the price of this book for most of us. As an administrator, this book will also serve you well with its detailed explanations, extensive graphics and screen shots, and Mark's interpretation of Microsoft's technical manuals. Compare this book to Microsoft's publication of "Windows XP" (ISBN: 0735618054).
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition Publisher: Sams Authors: Ben Forta Rating: 5/5 I work for a software company that makes database reporting tools that has compatability with over 35 databases. Those of us who use these programs and provide support for them do not have to know SQL in any way, the applications write the SQL for the user. Having so much exposure to databases, I naturally wanted to learn the language that makes them run. I already know good database design by looking at bad design. I found it rather easy to figure out the interface for databases like SQL Server and Oracle, but I did not know how to use iSQL. This book says right up front that it does not cover any topics specific to any database and does not go into design or other administrative tasks. All I wanted to learn was SQL and that is all this book presented. I have recommended it to everyone on my team.
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Title: Java Swing, Second Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: James Elliott, Marc Loy, David Wood, Brian Cole Rating: 4/5  Any book that claims it can tell the readers everything they need for any huge APIs such as Swing is likely to be misleading. But there are utility books that try very hard to make the users as informed as possible. O'Reilly's Java Swing is one of these books. In 1200+ pages, this book tries to explain every little details of the Swing API from the fundamental JComponent to the very advanced manipulation of the Swing Look And Feel, and every major components in between. There are still some very common issues that Swing developers wished this book had addressed, however. Such issues include the AWT event queue, AWT layout managers, and Swing threading issues. While this book does talk a bit about Swing threading, it does not explain a whole lot of the underlying mechanism of the AWT GUI and event queue that caused most developers trouble. Overall, this book is a good elaboration on the Swing Javadoc, but not enough as a cure-all for Swing developers.
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Title: Essential C++ Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Stanley B. Lippman Rating: 5/5 This book does an outstanding job of meeting its stated objective, which is to provide an experienced programmer who is unfamiliar with C++ with an understanding of the language which will enable him/her to produce effective C++ programs within a very short time. It is clear and concise, and I was "up and running" in the C++ environment very quickly! This book is not for experienced C++ programmers, nor is it an introduction to programming for a beginner. For its target audience, however, it's a winner!
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