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Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: Artificial Intelligence (3rd Edition) Publisher: Addison Wesley Authors: Winston Rating: 5/5  Well not exactly, P.H. Winston gives a great introduction to just how complicated intelligence is! Fortunately, he's a highly experienced carbon based terrian, so your neurons will be abuzz on endorphins. If you want real intelligence on AI, READ IT!! NASA Update: .... Evidence of biogenic activity on Mars!!!
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies Publisher: Pearson Education Authors: Deepak Alur, John Crupi, Dan Malks Rating: 5/5 The beta version of the J2EE Pattern Catalog found on the Web, has evolved into this great book. The authors have made a nice job in categorizing and illustrating useful patterns for the J2EE platform. I recommend everyone that is involved with J2EE design to have a copy on the bookshelf. A pattern is a reuse mechanism and a way to facilitate communication between developers, designers, and architects. I believe almost every pattern presented in this book fulfil those requirements. The exceptions are Service to Worker pattern and the Dispatcher View patterns that are trying to resolve too much at one time. Dispatcher View, though, is a good name, but Service to Worker does not feel like a great pattern name. This book also contains a chapter about bad practice, which is as important as good practice. The authors are inspired by Martin Fowler's book about refactoring and have provided a chapter about how to refactor bad J2EE design into good J2EE patterns. Patterns are one of the best reuse mechanisms we have in the software community and I find this catalog of good, documented patterns very useful. I hope we will se more books of this kind in the future.
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Title: Network+ Certification Study Guide, Second Edition Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Authors: Media Syngress Rating: 1/5  I do not recommend this book for anyone. The idea of breaking the chapters up by certification requirements may be a good idea, but in practice does not work well. Ideas and concepts are often introduced without explination til a later chapter. There are major errors in the books. (Page 343 alone erronously claims Serial Connections are one-way only and parallel is the only two connection, and calls states USB is otherwise known as "Fire-Wire". The included sample test software is poorly written. Every question is presented a multiple answer questions (check-boxes) even if there supposed to be only one answer. There is no way to choose the number of questions or review answers to questions answered correctly. I found this book a very hard read. If I were studing for the Network+ test solely from a book, I would not recommend this book.
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Title: Photoshop® 7 Bible (Bible) Publisher: Wiley Authors: Deke McClelland Rating: 3/5  First of all it's very disappointing that the publisher has stopped adding a cd with 'the bible' (which used to be the case in previous editions). As 'the bible' aims for beginner and intermediate users it's always nice you've got the pictures in the book on cd, so you can compare your results with the result you should aim at. Secondly there is not nearly a word about 'Image Ready' in this book. When you bought this book expecting to learn how to make animated gifs or weboriented design you will be very disappointed because knowing Image Ready is necessary to complete this task. The title 'the bible' is there for misleading, as Image Ready comes standard with Photoshop for weboriented tasks. Thirdly, Deke has a chapter by chapter approach which although he throrougly explains all the functions of a certain item, this does not lead to exercises in combination of all the parts. Combining the parts is exactly where Photoshop is at it's best. Motivating new users of Photoshop is best done by project approach, as you learn more and will be more motivated to experiment when you understand the interaction between different techniques, but this is where the book fails miserabely. Deke has certainly an enormous knowledge about Photoshop, but the approach he takes for leading new users into the graphic domain will only lead to boredom. Definitely not recommended for new users, as you will very easily get bored by the academic approach. Go for a basis project oriented approach and you will gave fun learning Photoshop, go for this book and you will get overwhelmed and demotivated. It's not a holy book, except if you only use it as a reference point (and in this case I would go for the professional edition).
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