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Title: Code Complete Publisher: Microsoft Press Authors: Steve McConnell Rating: 5/5  The things described in this book are very valuable. Goes in depth in writing actual code (using some code guidelines) to performance tuning, testing and debugging without specific focus to one programming language. This is one of the books that is required reading for people who whan to write code.
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Title: Mac OS X Panther for Dummies Publisher: For Dummies Authors: Bob LeVitus Rating: 2/5  I have found more faulty references in this book than helpful ones. I'll cite just one example. I wanted to find out more about the "Find" function in Panther, in particular about how to extract the location of the "found" file when I'm looking at a trail of unnamed "folder" icons. The index sent me to page 82 (the only reference to "Find"). The information there was a tiny paragraph languishing under the heading "Desktop Madness." It said, "Use the Files->Find command when you can't remember where you put it in a file or folder." (sic). Then the second and last sentence: "This command is a Mac OS X feature that really kicks some butt. I discuss it in detail in chaper 12." Guess what? Chapter 12 is called "The Fail-Safe Guide to Printing." No more references to "Find." You know whose butt I'd like to kick. Enough said.
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Title: Graphic Java 2, Volume 2: Swing (3rd Edition) Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Authors: David Geary Rating: 5/5 If you need a good reference for Java Swing, then this is the book. The different features are thoroughly covered, and a lot of examples are provided. The covered topics include buttons, menubars, toolbars, file choosers, dialog boxes, and text components as well as many others. The book comes with a CD that includes all of the coding examples as well as JDK 1.2. Although this book is a great reference, it is not for novices. A basic understanding of Java is needed to do well with this book as it assumes you know the basics already. In all, every Swing programmer should have this book.
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (2nd Edition) Publisher: Sams Authors: Laura Lemay, Richard Colburn, Robert Kiesling Rating: 4/5  The first book which I bought to try to learn Perl was a needlessly high hurdle to jump: Programming Perl, by Larry Wall (the inventor of the language). While I wouldn't go so far as to regret the purchase, Wall seems more interested in demonstrating whatever cute, obscure trick jumps into his mind at the moment, than in giving the reader a systematic grounding in the language. It isn't what one new to Perl needs-- especially being, as it is, a language with so many inelegancies and side-effects. Then I bought and studied this book by Till, whose patient pedagogy allowed me to find my feet. I think, in fact, that Till is too humble. If one really sat at the computer and concentrated on the book for several hours a day, as he plans, one could learn what he teaches in no more than seven days. In my experience, it is also practical as a reference later, within the scope of the basic topics covered. Of course it is not exhaustive; but holding that against it is about like criticizing Euclid for not discussing calculus. Now I can go back to Wall's book with some hope of appreciating what he says this time.
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