Sams Teach Yourself Object Oriented Programming in 21 Days
 Great for us programmer-dinosaurs: This book is a lifesaver. If you have done non-OOP development and are trying to learn Java and OOP, this book may be for you. I find other Java books do not do enough to tie-in the big picture. Even after reading Eckel' [... more]
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Java(TM) Network Programming and Distributed Computing
Very well written: One of the best books I've purchased. I bought "Java Network Programming and Distributed Computing" for Sun's Developer certification exam which requires knowledge of the information given in every chapter, for example RMI, [... more]
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MCAD Developing and Implementing Windows-based ...
just for certification purpose: As it claims itself, this book is not meant to teach you anything new. It is just meant for preparing you to pass the exam. Actually I feel that this book is a summarized version of Mike Gunderloy 's book on 70-306. If you [... more]
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Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules
perl book you should/must get: perl must-have's: - camel, - Hall/Schwartz: effective - Friedl: Reg Ex Should-have: - Conway OO Perl (all 4 Manning perl titles are superb) - Brown debuggin perl OR scott/wright Perl debugged - Learning Python & Ruby [... more]
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Beginning Java Objects: From Concepts to Code, Second ...
From Amazon.co.uk: Learning to design objects effectively with Java is the goal of Beginning Java Objects, an intensive yet approachable guide to object design using UML and today's hottest programming language. Aimed at those who know a little Java, but [... more]
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PHP5 and MySQLBible
Nice book but not recommended: If you already are a programmer from another language this book is just fine but if you are a beginner stay away from it. You're better off reading something from the WROX publishers to learn PHP and the MySQL Tutorial from [... more]
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C++ from the Ground Up, Third Edition
Not that Useful: Poorly written. The goal was to produce a book of 800 pages which would look impressive to book reviewers. However if you're actually using Schildt's books to try to program it's very bad. For example 1/2 of a page is devoted to loops [... more]
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CodeNotes for C#
Very good book: This book was reccomended to me by my Senior colleagues and I felt very thankful to them when I started reading this book. It is really a good book if you want to start C#. Very good reading and the authour presents his ideas very [... more]
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Creating Components: Object Oriented, Concurrent, and ...
Great introduction to concurrent programming with objects: This book provides a good introduction to Concurrent and Object Oriented Programming in Java. I was fortunate enough to take Dr. Kann's class last semester, while this book was being finalized. [... more]
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Java Programming, 4th Edition
Joyce Farrell's Java; Bad to the Last Drop: It's told that Abraham Lincoln once quipped "If this is coffee, then please bring me tea; if this tea, then please bring me coffee". Whether or not it was he, I know not, but if it was Java & [... more]
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Sams Teach Yourself C++ for Linux in 21 Days
Solid language tutorial, but not really dedicated to Linux: TEACH YOURSELF C++ FOR LINUX IN 21 DAYS, while it may seem the ideal book to the budding Linux programmer because of its size, is a poor book for the beginner, and indeed for most programmers [... more]
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Arms and Armor of the Greeks
From Amazon.com: In 490 B.C. a force of some 10,000 Athenians and their allies met a much larger Persian army on the rocky beach at Marathon. The Greeks arrayed themselves in a thin line, advancing on the Persians slowly, then breaking into a run, [... more]
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