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Title: Programming C#, 4th Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Jesse Liberty Rating: 5/5  This is a fantastic book for anyone coming to C#. Regardless of your background or level of programming knowledge you will find it clear and concise. The examples and walkthroughs follow one another in a logical manner. Once again Jesse Liberty has produced a book that sets the standard, and sets it high!
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: ASP.NET Unleashed, Second Edition Publisher: Sams Authors: Stephen Walther Rating: 5/5 If you're new to ASP.NET, or even an experienced ASPer who feels you have "holes" in your knowledge (and you know who you are), you NEED this book. After taking a one-semester college course on ASP.NET (that left something to be desired, quite frankly), I first purchased four other ASP.NET books, all highly rated here on Amazon. It was my hope to acquire more ASP.NET background. I got something out of all of them, but still felt confused by many of the concepts. Thank God I found this book! ASP.NET was the one book that finally made it all make sense. I found myself saying "A-HA!" so often, I couldn't even count them all. All the confusion that had been raised in my mind by the other books is now gone. I find myself going back to them and saying, "Okay, now I get what's going on here..." This book is a BRICK, no doubt about it. That is only because it is very through. Don't be intimidated by its length. For example, when the author introduces a new concept, say like Web Controls, he explains ALL off the different properties and methods and exactly how each one is used. A complete, stand-alone, fully-working code example is provided for each one. These are not code "snippets", but complete, fully working pages start to finish. That is one of the reasons the book is so big. However, the accompanying CD has all the examples already typed out. Just load them into a virtual directory on your web server and play away. This book doesn't assume you use Visual Studio, though you could easily recreate the concepts using VS. It also doesn't walk you through how to set up your web server, how to set up SQL Server, or teach you Visual Basic or C#. If you are completey new to programming, you really should learn some VB.NET or C# first (this would apply to any ASP.NET training). I can only assume most of the poorer reviews here were posted based on the first edition. Rest assured, this Second Edition comes with a CD, and the code examples do work fine.
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Authors: Michael Meyers, Scott Jernigan Rating: 3/5  The fifth edition leaves you drowning for information. I used the fourth edition to pass the A+ Core exam with flying colors. The fifth edition was used to study for the A+ OS exam, 2003 guidelines. After taking the exam, this book provided at best 25% of the material covered on the exam. While no book should teach to a test, a book dedicated to an exam should teach the material that will be tested. The A+ premium practice exams were purchased from totalsem.com, they too fell well short of preparing an individual to take A+ OS exam.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Java Threads, 3rd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Scott Oaks, Henry Wong Rating: 1/5  I started reading it for the second time, and it stinks! I'm just gonna put it down and spend some more money. It was a twisted learning experience, not worth a cent.
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