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Title: Beginning XML (Programmer to Programmer) Publisher: Wrox Authors: David Hunter, Andrew Watt, Jeff Rafter, Kurt Cagle, Jon Duckett, Bill Patterson Rating: 5/5  This new edition really improves on the previous one. Although I liked the previous edition, this one is even better, and contains corrections, adds chapters on new technologies not covered in the previous one, and continues to deliver on Wrox quality. For those who don't have the previous edition (first), this one covers everything you need to know about XML as of today.
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Title: Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Authors: Andrew Koenig, Barbara E. Moo Rating: 5/5 This is absolutely the BEST C++ book for beginners. Why? Because it starts by teaching you the standard library BEFORE teaching you how to create your own classes, templates, etc. What's so great about that? Two things: First of all, as the title implies, beginner C++ programmers can write fairly complex and useful programs much FASTER than otherwise. And second, and most important in my opinion, beginners learn how to structure classes, methods, inheritance etc FROM THE PRO's! The standard library was developed after years of experience by some of the best C++ minds around. Using the teaching approach of this book the programmer learns the style of the standard library first - not a bad style to emulate - before learning how to write their own classes. It helps programmers to understand really how great classes are and what excellent things you can do with them (and especially how to do these things "right") before the programmer goes off writing classes on his/her own. And for this reason alone this is the best C++ book for beginners that I have seen or read. Aside from this, the book is very well written, clear, and concise (all very important from my perspective).
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Title: Discrete-Time Signal Processing (2nd Edition) Publisher: Prentice Hall Authors: Alan V. Oppenheim, Ronald W. Schafer, John R. Buck Rating: 4/5  I used the author's book "Digital Signal Processing" in my college study, and I also read and cite the 1st Edition of "Discrete-Time Signal Processing" during my work experience. That's a very good reference. But I don't have the 2nd Edititon. However, after going through the Table Of Contents of the 2nd Edition of "Discrete-Time Signal Processing", I think Oppenheim&Schafer did a resaonable tradeoff to reflect state of the art in DSP domain. They add: Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) which is mostly used in image compression, Multirate Signal Processing which is used widely in modern DSP, and Oversampling and Noise Shaping Sampling for A/D and D/A conversion. In consequence, they remove: Lattice Structure, IIR Filters Design, Cepstrum Analysis (often used in speech signal processing) and Homomorphic Signal Processing, which are a bit sophisticated. And I guess the reason to remove IIR Filter Dsign is there exists many computer-aided tools on digital filter design, and made this very easy.
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Title: SQL Bible Publisher: Wiley Authors: Alex Kriegel, Boris M. Trukhnov Rating: 4/5 A darker print would make this book easier to read. I agree that this is an excellent source for how to do things in SQL. Know that the DB2 on the CD rom is past the deadline for being operational.
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