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Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Official Final Fantasy VII Strategy Guide Publisher: Bradygames Authors: David Cassady Rating: 2/5  It's got everything you need, except it doesn't include some stuff on chocobos and limit breaks, and it also has a lot of f**k ups in it. They leave out alot about morphing and stealing from enemies, too. But if you want to just get throught the game get the book i guess, but its much funner to explore on your own. If you want to totally master the game i'd say this will only take you so far..so...
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Authors: Roger S. Pressman Rating: 4/5  An industry standard that no software professional can claim to be well-read without. I was pleased to see (finally) the addition of two chapters on Formal Methods in Software Engineering. This was an unfortunate omission in the third edition that is now corrected. The price is a bit overinflated, as with most texts on the subject. Makes for an excellent companion, when compared and contrasted with other current industry texts.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Official Final Fantasy VII Strategy Guide Publisher: Bradygames Authors: David Cassady Rating: 2/5 The guide for FFVII is very explanatory! It gives me the information that no other guide (online or published) could ever help me with. A definite must-have for FFVII owners!
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Jeffrey E. F. Friedl Rating: 5/5  I can't say enough good things about this book. Regular expressions are such a powerful concept, but some of that power would be easy to miss if not guided correctly through the topic. Jeffrey Freidl does a great job of making a potentially very dry subject interesting, even while getting very involved in all the complexities that are inherent in such a powerful abstraction. He also does a good job of presenting both the general topic of regular expressions and the specific characteristics of the various tools available to process them. This is a book that you will come back to many times. I actually read it as a precursor to learning Perl several years ago. Then just recently I revisited it while taking a class on compiler construction and found that it still had useful insights for me. If you're a committed programmer, this book should be on your shelf. Also, the criticisms I've read in reviews here are pretty misguided. It is "chatty", because the author has a genuine enthusiasm for his subject. It is also not a "teach yourself regular expressions in 24 hours" kind of book. There are actually lots of cookbook style examples, but the main point of the book is to give you a solid enough understanding of the general topic that you don't need examples to craft your regexes. In this case, little patience as a reader will be much rewarded.
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