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Title: Programming Perl (3rd Edition) Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant Rating: 1/5  I bought a book, and was very unsatisfied for the following reasons: 1. It's not good for someone who wants to learn Perl. I'm fairly competent in C++, Java and VB and have more than four years of programming experience, still I could not learn what perl is about from this book. The authors seems to jump from one 'fact' to another, rather than presenting a well formed flow of teaching. The small but crutial facts (such as variable $_) are not explained in detail; may be because the authors are experts, they thought that anybody knew them by default. But that seems to be a mistake because those fatcs are not common in other languages and are new to even experienced C++ or Java programmers. 2. The author seems to prefer explaining why he designed perl in such a way to teaching how perl works. There are a lot of justifications in each section why perl is better. So, if you are a curious Perl fan, this book may be the one for you. If you are new to language and want to learn, the book will only discourage you. 3. Examples are very poorly chosen. Rather than introducing the bare minimum to understand a new concept, they provide a lot of unrelated new (probably advanced) concepts that distracts the reader. And the author goes on explaining those unrelated things on-the-spot, keeping the original topic aside; This is probably due to authors preference to real-world examples, and his dislike to write simple example programs even for a book .... 4. Almost every section has annoying forward references. Summary: If you are a computer linguist, you already know Perl and are interested in the internals of language design, this book would probably interest you. But if you want to learn, go somewhere else. I think this book would have better be named "Perl: Technical Reference". But even for such a book, it's too inconvenient having to dig the long paragraphs just to find a minute detail. Why couldn't he use techniques other authors use to make their books easy-to-read - rather than adding a lot of not-so-funny jokes as footnotes?
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Title: Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, Second Edition Publisher: New Riders Press Authors: Katrin Eismann, Doug Nelson Rating: 5/5  I'm very impressed with this book. It teaches the fundamentals of evaluating images and then shows you how to repair them effectively. If I could fault the book at all it would be that at times the effect is sometimes so subtle it's hard to see the fix, if not flatly impossible. But in most cases the problem is very obvious. This is a must have book for those looking to scan and fix very old photos so that they can be preserved digitally. This book teaches all of the tried and true analog photo fixing techniques with our new digital tools.
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Title: Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom in a Book Publisher: Adobe Press Authors: Adobe Creative Team Rating: 5/5 Still struggling with Photoshop even though you've purchased a half dozen or so "how to" books? Then you need to purchase "Photoshop 7.0 Classroom in a Book". Believe me - because I've bought them all - this is the best tutorial Photoshop book for the beginner. Work through each of the eighteen chapters and MOST IMPORTANTLY, go back and carefully review what you've done to cement your knowledge. So if you've already purchased other Photoshop books and you still don't get it, theres hope. After you diligently work through "Photoshop 7.0 Classroom in a Book", those other Photoshop books that you paid your hard earned money for will make a lot more sense. I've lived and learned.
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Title: How Computers Work, Seventh Edition Publisher: Que Authors: Ron White, Timothy Edward Downs Rating: 5/5 This is a very good book with lots of good pictures. It also includes a nice cd-rom. I would recommend this book if you are lokking for general information about computers.
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