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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9781418836405 Edition: 3 ISBN: 1418836400 Label: Course Technology Manufacturer: Course Technology Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1600 Publication Date: May 02, 2006 Publisher: Course Technology Studio: Course Technology Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Great beginner's bookI don't care what anyone else says, I think this book is very helpful. I'm a computer science/mathematics major...though mathematics comes easily for me, I'm not finding the same with computer programming and this book has helped me tremendously to understand and apply these new concepts. Repetition? Some, but repetition is what helps us learn. But I don't think there is too much repetition, just enough...maybe more repetition should be used in some of the book's sections, especially higher level ... Read More Rating:  - Don't get this book unless you have toAs far as the quality of the book is concerned, pages keep falling out from the binding. I purchased this tome of boredom to complete some classwork in Data Structures and I have to say the book is completely awful. The worst part is the assignments. If they're not entirely boring or useless, they have the rare implementation that more information cannot be found on elsewhere, so you're essentially stuck with the author's poor explanations. A good example would be the simulation ... Read More Rating:  - Learn by example, taken to the extremeBy about page 689 I had read the word "suppose" once too often. Mr. Malik's coherence fell apart when he got to the object-oriented stuff, and he started to use examples to *start* explanations. His meandering paragraphs begun with the word "suppose" are generally not helpful. Don't let chapter 12 (Inheritance and composition) discourage you, though. It's the worst of them and it gets better after that. If you like to highlight your textbooks you will be frustrated by this book. You will spend ... Read More Rating: - Terrible introductory bookThis is my first review of any book after buying many books from Amazon over the years. Generally I find reviews helpful when considering purchases, but I always take them with a grain of salt and supplement it with my own research before making a buying decision. I'm writing this review because I had such a negative experience with this book. A little background on myself. I'm a self-taught programmer mostly working commercially in Visual Basic for the past 7 years. I've also done a lot of ... Read More Rating: - Find another book. Not for a beginner. This book doesn't flow at all. It is hard to follow along. I am a beginner and this book almost has turned me off from programming all together. I recommended looking for another book. 
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