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Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Thinking in Java (3rd Edition) Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Authors: Bruce Eckel Rating: 5/5  I am a highly experienced C programmer, but have almost no background in C++ or other OOP. This was the third Java book I bought, and is definitely the best I've found for getting you into the OOP mindset. "Thinking in Java" is a very appropriate title, in my humble opinion.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction Publisher: Wiley Authors: Dan Margulis Rating: 5/5 As a professional photoshop user I own many books on the subject of Photoshop color correction and retouching. I have all of Dan's books along with many more from many other authors. Professional Photoshop is by far the best book available on how to get accurate results out of Photoshop images and onto paper. It is heavily oriented toward print output, and it doesn't spend any time on special effects. It merely takes you through the intricacies of making a color photograph look the best it can. Believe me, that is hard enough. Dan is especially strong in "by the numbers" color correction, which simply means showing how to evaluate an image by color values in certain areas, and then changing those values to get great results. This is necessary to get predictable and consistant results: the mark of a true professional. Another true strength of this book is its demonstration of using all color spaces to, as much as possible, make global corrections to an image and avoid time-consuming selections. This is a book for practical, hands-on color correction. Theory is presented only if it has proven effective, there's no spin here. Dan is a master and his book is a masterpiece. I highly recommend it.
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Title: Programming Windows, Fifth Edition Publisher: Microsoft Press Authors: Charles Petzold Rating: 5/5 This is an awesome book. It covers a lot of what used to be API programming. It gives a little more understanding to how to program Windows. In fact, I had to read this book first before I was able to understand MFC. In addition, it made me want to download the Platform SDK to try out more stuff, even though it wasn't covered in the book. Anyway, a couple words of warnings. First, all of the coding in this book is in C, which doesn't give much for Object Oriented Programming. Second, there are a lot of code compared to MFC. So, don't expect to do some small things in a couple of lines. Lastly, you must at least have an interest into learning this because I can see that a person not interested in this can get bored really fast. Overall, it's a good book.
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Title: Programming ASP.NET, 2nd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz Rating: 5/5 This book is a gold-mine - explaining well the .NET concepts. As an experienced ASP developer, it gave me good background to understand the differences between ASP and ASP.NET. The examples are structured to build on each other and are well thought-out. I had a question about one of the examples and posted it to Jesse Liberty's web site (url included in the book). He answered it right away! Great book!
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