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Title: Writing Effective Use Cases Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Alistair Cockburn Rating: 5/5  This book was very informative. It really teaches you great techniques for writing Use Cases. It is the best book I've found for writing Use Cases but introduces a couple of concepts that it falls short in conveying understanding. There was never any explanation referring to Extensions meaning Alternative Flow Of Events. This is obvious, so I presumed it to be true. I'm sure many of you know, but nothing explained it, and every example said: None. Even the example that states that an Extension Point is used in the next Use Case, still says: None. There are grammatical mistakes throughout the book (Not a big deal). I felt, that if you read this and stay within the realm of the authors suggestions, and disregard the alternative methods, you should be alright. I would suggest to the author improving the explanations of a White Box Use case, instead of supplementing content with examples. I know what White Box is in Design, but It would be wrong of me to presume the same behavior in a Use Case. The icons are a very handy reminder, and even with all the the perceived problems with the book, I think it's the best one available that I've seen. ESPECIALLY when compared to the Unified Process books.
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Title: Programming C#, 4th Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Jesse Liberty Rating: 5/5 Every topic is clearly and simply explained in the minimum number of words - no waffle. This is the best book I've seen for getting started in C#. In fact it's the best technical book I have ever read. Some people have requested more depth - that would make it too heavyweight for people starting out in C#.
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days (4th Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself) Publisher: Sams Authors: Rogers Cadenhead, Laura Lemay Rating: 4/5  java and learning concepts and basic java languge and the source codes for it;
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Title: XQuery: The XML Query Language Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Michael Brundage Rating: 1/5  This very good book gets only 1 star because of the poor quality of binding. A few months of (admittedly heavy) use is all it took for individual pages and whole sections to start falling out. Otherwise, I generally agree with the previous review. It's a thorough introduction to the XQuery language with extensive reference and numerous examples. If it wasn't for the horrible production values I'd give it 5 stars.
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