3 comments about Error Coding Cookbook: Practical C/C++ Routines and Recipes for Error Detection and Correction.

1. This book is marketed several places as a good cookbook for Reed Solomon coding and just plug in some subroutines and you have an encoder or decoder. It cover binary BCH codes pretty well, but when it gets to REEd-Solomon it glosses over it and gives one useless example. It would have only taken a few more pages to make this a whole lot more useful for me, I am some what new to coding, but not an idiot and had to read it several times to get the point on binary BCH code arithmetic, but as far as non-binary I am still looking. I haven't looked at the Viterbi algorithm or convolutional codes maybe I will report more later



2. There are a lot of typing errors and crucial information missed in this book. And the C/C++ routines come with this book do not work properly.



3. I purchased this book several years ago for the introduction to Galois field mathematics while researching CRC hardware. I've returned to it recently to help me understand GF again for implementation of a Reed Solomon codec. Other, reviewers have complained about this book but I think they sell it short. After reading dozens of articles about BCH/Reed Solomon codes I'm always left missing the point of the mathematics because they gloss over the important details. Like, why GF(2^8) requires polynomial math and what alpha is for. Since it is a cookbook there are lots of recipes for calculation which provide a **practical** basis for the development of the mathematical concepts. Let's face it -- polynomial arithmetic is strange and this book really helped me to get a grip on it. I'm now better equiped to handle all the journal articles and books on the subject of error control coding.

   As for the C++/C routines...I haven't tried any of them so I don't know about bugs/issues with them. However, if you take the time to follow and understand the mathematics I'll bet you could easily fix the code. I would agree that this book isn't going to be the quick fix to get you a Reed-Solomon Codec or Viterbi decoder for free.

   I paid $55 for my brand new copy. $155 is a mighty high price to pay for ANY book regardless of a 5-star review or not!

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3 comments about Understanding Programming: An Introduction Using C++.

1. This book seems to have been written primarily as a college text. It offers thoughful insite to the absolute basics which is refreshing since many texts on this subject often assume that the reader has at least an intermediate knowledge of programming. Buy this book before moving on to "Teach Yourself C in 21 Days" . As a budding programmer myself, I highly recommend this book.

   Jsalas




2. Not adequate for novice. This book was my textbook for C++. This book tries to deal with 'Introduction to Programming'and and 'Data Structue'in introductory book in poor way. If you are new to C++ I strongly recommend oher nice authors such as 'Deitel', Bruce Eckel' Irah Pohl.They know how to teach c++



3. Each year we revisit the question of what text to teach Programming I from. For the past three years, we settled on this one, though with some reservations.

   Its approach of quickly giving the student enough to write interesting programs works pretty well, though a few more constructs could be included earlier (such as constants, and ints). My preference is also to delay teaching objects to novice programmers until the student has at least a basic grasp of structured programming ideas, and Cannon does that.

   On the other hand, the treatment of strings is rather poor, and a student who wants to go on in programming is advised to supplement this text with an additional reference, as the text is not as complete as it might be.

   Overall, Cannon does a reasonable job of teaching the basic ideas of structured programming to a novice programmer. If the book leaves you wanting more, you will then be able to move on to a more thorough text with confidence.

5 comments about Turbo C/C++: The Complete Reference.

1. Within two hours of buying the book, all I had done was skip around in it. I hadn't read anything sequentially, and I was already learning new functions for Turbo C++. In fact, he included features of Turbo C++ that weren't even in the Borland manual or help screen. After even jumping around in the book, I was realizing the compiler that I bought had far more power than I realized, and not because Borland explained it, but because Schildt did. He packed a lot of information in this book. The price is up there, but to me it was completely worth it. Lots of information! If you are stuck in Turbo C++ 3.0/3.1, get this book. It is the best reference I've ever read for any programming language



2. A very good reference tool for the C programmer. I think it lacked a little in the explanation of differences between C & C++. Let it be known, this is a REFERENCE book. I had a teacher use this as a text book. It is not a book book to try and learn C from, even if you are a decent programmer in another language. I think the examples it attempted to explain were too complex for anyones good.



3. I leaned C and C++ from this book and now teach from it with no complaint to date (didn't teach the guy that wrote the previous review - I'm from IL :). Anyway, I found the book simply great - all the information I needed packed in VERY simple, to the point examples (not like other books that have you reading 3 page examples just to show what cin does...)+ It still serves me as a very complete refference to both languages. I would be happy to recomend anyone using or planning to learn\use C\C++ (Turbo or otherwise) to buy this book



4. i am an engineer and i am doing master in computer sciences. i have a project so, i need some reference books to studies.. thanks



5. Probably one of the best available book for Turbo C/C++. The book is good due to three reasons- One, you can start from scratch and you can understand and use a difficult language like C easily. Two, it provides complete to the point as well as easy/with example reference for the C language. Three, it has an excellent reference for turbo C 2.0. Overall, as far as Turbo C is concerened, this is a single book that fulfills most of the requirements. The teaching style of the author is excellent and the reference material is to the point with examples wherever required.

1 comments about The Introduction to the Magee System of Technical Analysis: In a new edition by W.H.C. Bassetti.

1. This is a reasonable introduction that covers all the important things. The focus is (as it should be) on money management, and very simple (but effective) technical analysis. Support & Resistance, trendlines, and moving averages are the primary mechanisms used. I thought it was a little confused, at parts, and found myself comparing it to John Murphy's Visual Investor. They both seem to have a similar target audience (people new to technical analysis). On the one hand, The Magee book covers money management which Murphy seems to do a poor job covering in his books (Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets has a bit on it, but nothing extensive -- none of his other books mention it at all), but the Visual Investor gets the nod for just being a better written effort.

   If this is your first book on TA, you should be fine, although I think Visual Investor covers the topic better. If you are already familiar with the basics, I would pass this one over for a more advanced book.

5 comments about C++ For Java Programmers.

1. I liked this book. It *is* a light, but helpful, introduction to most of the pifalls of C++ for a person who has worked with Java for some time. The problem is that the approach to memory allocation and the standard library tools are very different in Java and C++, while the syntax of both languages appear to be very similar; the author makes this point clear with examples. Compared with some standard references for C++, with lots of detail and almost thousand pages, this book is very readable and enjoyable. This is not a reference type of book, there are plenty of those out there. It is a book for those who reached OO programming via Java period.



2. This book was mistitled. It should have been "Differences Between Java And C++: A Crunch Translation Guide". Like an English-LanguageX translation guide (or a culture-to-culture translation guide, for that matter), this book is intended to identify the sorts of things that a Java developer jumping into C++ with no background in C++ would typically incorrectly presume or fail to correctly presume without having been told. To that end, this is an excellent, one-of-a-kind book that immediately immerses the reader into very significant and important differences between the languages regarding everything from syntax to compilation and execution. There is an interesting bit of detail about the philosophy, purpose, and objectives behind C++ which paints a significantly different picture in that realm than Java does, showing that in spite of the fact that Java and C++ look similar to the human eye, they are nothing alike (... but alike enough to be able to produce a "direct translation guide" like this book).

   This book assumes a) significant familiarity with Java, b) is familiar with, and respects and appreciates, what too many people think "doesn't really matter," like how computers work, computing history, etc., and c) basic existing familiarity with C++, at least enough for "Hello World!" and then some.

   I'd recommend this book to any Java programmer looking at C++ who has never done so but who has recognized that Java was born by C++ developers, and who has recognized that one can and should actively extend, and not indifferently coincide, new C++ skills on top of an existing fluency in Java. This book should be accompanied by other books--no book can do it all--but this is an excellent "Java/C++ translation guide".

   Due to the mistitling/mismarketing, I would give this a 9/10 but given only five stars it rounds up to five.




3. I am a java programmer trying to learn C++, and find this book VERY hard to follow.

   Most of the syntax is not explained and too much time is spent explaining subtle details, rather than key concepts. Some of the real differences between c++ and java are clouded with confusing fragments of explanation, mixed with unexplained code.

   It seems to be more of a comparison or overview for C++ programmers than an introductory book for java developers.

   I am confused and left reading pages over and over again trying to make sense of this language. I think it would have been easier and quicker to just buy a c++ book, forgoing my java background.




4. This is a very good book. I read it in full. This book provides a very precise explanation of the concepts that one needs to know in C++. Also this book provides a clear comparison of the two languages C++ and Java. It explains the strengths of both the languages without any bias. Many of the C++ books tends to be tough to follow. This book is highly readable and explains even the difficult topics in a simple language with simple and easy to follow examples. The case studies are very good. I like the way Templates are introduced in this book and the container examples in the case study. Simple yet complete and precise.



5. This is a good book highlighting the major differences between the two languages. The material is presented clearly.

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1 comments about Standard C: A Reference (Prentice Hall Series on Programming Tools and Methodologies).

1. Great for answering technical questions concerning the C language . Also very useful for determining the portablility of code. Includes a 3 1/2" floppy with the entire contents of the book in an easy-to-navigate set of web pages.

2 comments about Numerical Simulations and Case Studies Using Visual C++.Net.

1. I picked up this book because it seemed perfect. I've been working on porting an engineering simulation to .NET. I've struggled with the lack of floating point exceptions in .NET (even in legacy code called via P/Invoke). I had hoped to see how these issues were being handled by others.
   
   Forget it. This is an unmanaged MFC book with 3 paragraphs about managed extensions for C++ tossed in. Seriously. 3 paragraphs. I guess that's all it takes to call it a .NET book.
   
   If you are interested in the case studies the book might be worth a read. If you are interested in the details of dealing with numerical issues in .NET - don't bother looking in this book.
   
   I think the title of this book is not only wrong but downright deceptive.



2. Marvellous! This book fulfils my requirements of creating user-friendly interfaces in conducting numerical simulations using Visual C++. I have been searching for books that discuss numerical simulation problems with VC++. Believe me, this is the only book that has these features so far. I found this book easy to understand as the codes in VC++ are in compact form but practical. From this book, I managed to create Windows-based
   simulations using the sample problems discussed. I like the chapters on graph theory and their applications in solving several optimization problems. This book is great!

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