Book review summary: It's really a great book. ~ book by Andrew Troelsen

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Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: C# and the .NET Platform, Second Edition
Publisher: Apress
Authors: Andrew Troelsen
Rating: 5/5

It's really a great book.

Hmm..I am a teacher who teach programming language. This book is really a great book, but "It's not for begginer".

I think it's great because ,
1. Andrew describe the technology which is "under the hood", and this make the book huge but details.
2. It always explain everything using the CIL(Intermediate Language), It's good for me. Every technology he talk about can convince me .A lot of C# book are just teach to "for , if , while...even OO inheritance, polymorphism...",I am tired about read that kind of book. It's enogh, no deeply talk about C# and .net except this one.

3. Ok, That must admit that this book is a little complex and hard in reading especially reader who don't have programming experince . It's better be a second book for you , or maybe third ....

On my comment, I suggest that If you are already familiar of some OO Programming language, like Java or C++ or VB.Net. Otherwise, it's better if you already know COM , and some popular popular technologies .

Enjoy this book. by the way, it's more than 1100+ pages.(really huge for me), you may need more patient.

Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Active Directory Cookbook for Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Robbie Allen
Rating: 4/5

Answers Questions

This book consistently answers questions I've been asking. How refreshing. This is a good investment for anyone who wants to go beyond the GUI.
It's Mike.

Product: Book - Paperback
Title: VBA Developer's Handbook, 2nd Edition
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Ken Getz, Mike Gilbert
Rating: 5/5

An advanced VBA reference book

I found this book to be just as useful for VB as I did for VBA. The ussue's discused are not as easy to find in competing texts. I would not recommend this book to people who are just starting to develop application however. After a little experience with VBA integration al-least is needed to fully understand this textbook. GREAT JOB

Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Andrew Koenig, Barbara E. Moo
Rating: 5/5

This is THE BOOK to learn C++!

I have bought a copy of "Accelerated C++" and read through it without stopping. In my opinion, it is the best book on C++ that I have read. In reading this book, I feel like there is a teacher in front of me. The style of this book is step by step and the way of starting with using this language rather than learning this language is no doubt why it is a best-seller in the world of C++.
And especially I like the introduction of the use of some data structures (such as vectors and maps) and some generic algorithms. It would be very helpful when we write our programms.
And I like the ONE-EXAMPLE-IN-DEPTH style of the book. The Student_info problem runs through the whole book and give us insight into C++ step by step. I believe this is much better than many different examples' style.
After reading this book, I remember the old saying: Programme == Data Structure + Algorithm.
This is especially true in C++. Sometimes a good data structure will help you solve a problem in a trivial way. And sometimes you may find a library algorithm which can greatly simplify your code. In most problems we deal with, programming is a balance between Data Structures and Algorithms. I got this impression from this great book. Before reading it. this famous saying has no effect on me. :)
IMHO, this book is much better than the so-called "Bible of C++" -- "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne Stroustrup.
This book is a MUST-HAVE for every1 who is studying or using C++ programming.
The only "flaw" I think is that this book hasn't an electronic version. Hopefully, I would like to see "Accelerated C++ CD" in the near future.
I recommend this book without any reservation!