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Title: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum : Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (2nd Edition) Publisher: Sams Authors: Alan Cooper Rating: 5/5  If you find yourself bemused by the current woeful state of software usability, Alan's entertaining mix of invective, insight, and good advice will leave you practically ready to shout "Hallelujah, Brother!"
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Title: Extreme Programming Installed Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson, Ronald E. Jeffries Rating: 4/5  XP is a nice fresh way of looking at the software development process and this book explains XP concisely and clearly. You may or may not agree to -all- of the principles they advocate, but if you have any interest in your work at all, you will find parts of this gripping. Especially the emphasis on unit tests and the test-first programming idea. And so useful in practice too! Anyone involved with making software, or indeed anyone else who is interested in increasing the quality of what you're working on whatever it is, should read this! So better borrow it from your neighbour (reading once is sufficient, no need to own this book).
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Title: Professional C++ (Programmer to Programmer) Publisher: Wrox Authors: Nicholas A. Solter, Scott J. Kleper Rating: 1/5  Giving a book negative comments is not what I usually like to do, I'm always suppressing this urge, saving my time and concerning about hurting the writers' feeling, but this time I can't help speaking it out. First, the title of this book is intentionally misleading, the correct title of this book should be called "A study notes by two college students who are trying very hard to understand C++ ---warning: full of misunderstanding, because it's a try-and-error process". The contents are anything but professional. Real professional C++ guys are laughing. Second, this book is trying to be a container of dissolution which dissolves everything. Everybody knows there is no such thing "one size fits all". This book is trying to contain everything related or unrelated to C++, such as RUP, XP, design patterns, distributed technologies, every features of C++. Wow, this book must be written by superman(s)!!! If you want to learn the basic, either Stan Lippman's "C++ Primer" or Deitel&Deitel's "C++ How to Program" will do. If you want to reach intermediate level, Scott Meyers and Steve Dewhurst will help you. Professional level? Even the best experts in this industry, including Bjarne Stroustrup, didn't claim it yet! Regarding design methodologies, Grady Booch, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck these guys will try to persuade you very hard. Design patterns? you don't need to look around, just simply stick to GoF. Third, the worst part regard this book is that there are too many totally false understanding, false opinions, and false perceptions! If all the mistakes are indicated, it will run half the volume of this book. You will know what it means if you read this book. Frankly, reading this book is quite an entertainment. You will laugh all the way to the last page. Final words, entertaining youself with books published by the notorious publisher "Wrox" (sounds like "Wrong X"), learning the books published by reputable publishers, such as Addison-Wesley.
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Title: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability Publisher: New Riders Press Authors: Steve Krug Rating: 5/5 If you're thinking of purchasing this book, your likely a seasoned veteran in web design. However, it is also likely that you're going to learn some new tricks and make the world (wide-web) a better place in the meantime. I highly recommend this book because you're not as good as you think you are. I read this book in a few days, cover-to-cover. It's a quick read because it's not full o' fluff. Save the rest of us and read this, quick!
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