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3 comments about C Style: Standards and Guidelines : Defining Programming Standards for Professional C Programmers.

1. Distinguishes between commonly accepted practices and areas with several feasible alternatives. The author reserves his example of the ideal standard to the appendix. The chapter on "Psychological factors" provides many insights into how standards can improve the programming process. Elements such as pattern recognition, filtering, habit, redundancy, cues, context, chunking, the rule of seven, context switching, eye focus, eye movement, looking ahead, looking back, subconscious, and natural ambition can affect both programmer productivity and program correctness. Comprehensively covers commenting, naming, layout, language usage, data usage, and programming usage. This material is also relevant for C++ programmers. Excellent source of ideas for developing an individual, group, or company coding policy.



2. Here's a readable reference on a subject many people love to avoid: coding standards. Why have them? How to choose? How do they help developers? In-depth chapters on the psychology of how people understand code (when they have to read it in order to change it), and on how to deploy a coding standard successfully.
   
   Of course, the bulk of the book is a detailed explanation of almost any kind of item you could put in a coding standard, with reasons and considerations. While these chapters are really a reference, I can see reading through them over time in order to become a better developer. To those who (rightly) are concerned about creativity, consider Straker's response:
   
   "The creative element in programming is more in the design, than in the coding. All but the most stringent standards and the most detailed designs leave plenty of creative scope for the coder. The only creativity that is to be frowned on is that which adds unnecessary complexity to the code."
   
   By the way, the author has recently put the entire text of the book online [...], but I'm still ordering print copies because I'd rather re-read under a tree than at a PC.
   
   Update: Now I've read the print copy -- there's a big difference reading from a book. Straker is thorough, and it's worth reading every word -- there's a temptation to skim and skip online. When you get tired, put the book down and come back to it later. Well worth it!



3. I use this standards and guidelines with misra-C, C coding standards.
   This include followings;
   Psychological factor
   general principle
   commenting
   naming
   code layout
   file layout
   language usage
   data usage
   programming usage
   implementing standards
   
   MISRA-C do not include naming and layout.
   But there are very important for productivity on team development.

1 comments about Advanced C Struct Programming: Data Structure Design and Implementation in C.

1. Who is Honus Wagner you ask? I think the more important question here is... who is John W. L. Ogilvie. Honus Wagner was a baseball player and his trading card is a highly valued collector's item. This book isn't a starter book for C programming but it is as the title says, a book for advanced C programming. But, I think you might want to know more about the author. John Wilbur Lester Ogilvie was born in rural Canonsburg, Pennsylvania to a father who worked at the local steel mill and whose mother worked as a nurse. Times were tough a couple years later after his birth and the family moved to Malibu, California for a better life. There, John was raised and learned everything he wanted to know about his first love, dance. At the tender age of 18, John wrote and choreographed his first one-man dance show. Unfortunately, it was a flop. His critics, colleagues, and friends scoffed at the performance. Most considered it a pointless waste of time, and most thought that John was not an accomplished dancer or choreographer. This was a turning point in John's life. Reality hit him in the face. Looking back, it was best that he tried before he embarassed himself in front actual dancers. His one-man dance show was called "Jump!" and it was basically a 20-minute show of John doing jumping jacks, push-ups, and squat thrusts to the music of the "William Tell Overture". It was quite an aerobic endeavour but completely lacking in any dance skills. Sally Goldstein, the high school's theater and dance teacher, said "My four year old could have done that." After high school, John attended the local community college in computer science and completed post-graduate degrees. He is now an accomplished programmer... but every now and then, you can see him perform "Jump!"... in his backyard.

5 comments about Mastering Visual C++ 6.

1. This book relies heavily on Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), the title should really be "Introduction to MFC, using Visual C++".

   Here is my experience: I have an extensive background in application programming (mostly Macintosh) and needed a book to help me get a Windows app up and running quickly. I started with this book and got something going, but soon found that MFC just makes life more confusing. MFC is not well documented, and to do anything you have to set up multiple objects and it is always mysterious what they are doing. Often, they can ONLY do the very simple things that they have been designed to do, and modifying them is a big chore (or impossible given the lack of documentation).

   After struggling to get my app to do simple things, I tossed it out and started from scratch using direct calls to Windows, using Schildt's Windows 98 Programming as a guide. This is working much, much better (though there are still simple things that need better documentation like how to deal with child windows).




2. Not for beginners as the name suggest.
   If you want to learn graphics programming using Visual C++ this
   is the right book.
   Rich in examples.



3. This book is horrible, it is not worth the paper it is written on. They did NOT know how to publish an informative book! Chapter 13 program does NOT even WORK!!! Even on the cd they provide it does NOT compile! Do not waste your money on this book!



4. The book is quite good in terms of how the author presents the topics, as well as his instructions. However, there are a lot of typos. I've read only chapters 11 & 12 and found at least 4 typos already (and I only skimmed through the pages). I don't know how many more I'd find did I read the text word by word. Would recommend this book for a beginner only as far as windows programming and MFC are concerned. An experienced programmer would find this book quite trivial.



5. This is NOT a book for someone beggining C++ UNLESS they are familiar with the C language.
   I dont care what anyone says, it does not go into any detail at all for beginners.
   The best quiality about this book is that it appeals to anyone wishing to learn to use the wizards.
   Its is very confusing, has many typos, and hardly goes into detail about what the code does.
   Itll show you some code to type, then say what the code does, but it wont explain how each line of code works.
   WASTE OF MONEY ( I got mine free from a friend )

5 comments about MCAD/MCSD Visual Basic(r) .Net(tm) Web Applications Study Guide (Exam 70-305).

1. I think this book is excellent. Yes, it could have been edited a little better, but I thought the information was presented extremely well and in an interesting way. I have passed the 70-306 exam and think that this book will definately help me pass the 70-305. I have absolutely no regrets in buying or reading this book cover-to-cover. I feel I am learning from every chapter.



2. This book is the best book available in the market. There are lot of errors but still covered all the aspects of the exam very well. I have passed the 70-305 exam.



3. This book contains a number of errors, both in the text itself, and in the programming examples. The errors are obviously confusing and frustrating, since you're trying to learn the material and prepare for the test - the last thing you want to be doing is trying to figure out the authors' mistakes.

   The core material *is* covered in the text; it's just that you'll be spending time going back and forth between pages trying to reconcile contradictory statements, or going nuts trying to figure out why step 3 in some exercise doesn't produce what the authors said it would.

   If you already know ASP.NET and ADO.NET fairly well, you should be able to guess what the authors were shooting for, and this may be a decent exam prep for you. I wouldn't try actually trying to learn from this (i.e., if you're under a tight deadline to learn the material and get certified).




4. I purchased this book (a while back) because it was one of the first couple that was available, and as is usually the case with books that are rushed to market, it contains a number of mistakes. Probably one of the worst areas is in the last chapter of the book, concerning URL security. I feel this is a big let down because a lot of test questions concern URL authorization. Maybe at this point, the editor just got tired of reviewing material. A number of mistaken and contradictory statements were made here, that led me to be very confused. Basically, I had to go to the source (MSDN) to figure out that the book was wrong in several places. Maybe they have fixed some of these errors by now. As well, a lot of the "Practice Questions" were vague and not well thought out, and acutally a couple were misprinted entirely. The practice exam that comes with the book's CD is pretty much worthless, buy Transcender or Measure Up instead. This being said, they do cover all the basic study material, and if you are planning on getting everything you need out of your study book, there is a good chance you will fail anyway. However, as stated previously, I would look for some of the more recently published books, as they are probably more accurate than this one.



5. This book covers all the material you will need to pass the 70-305 exam. In order to follow this book you will need previous knowledge of Visual Basic, it is certainly not for beginners. It is an excellent book for people who want to migrate from VB to VB .Net. It has lot of Exercises that give you hand on experience with code, while going through the chapters.

2 comments about The C++ Answer Book.

1. This book contains lots and lots of practical examples which covers almost all the aspects of C++ programming. It is an excellent book for those who are trying to learn C++ by themselves. All the examples are explained in detail.



2. This book is very clear and concise. Best of it's kind that I've seen!

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1 comments about C++ In-Depth (C++ in-Depth Series (Boxed Set)).

1. The listing didn't seem to quickly show the books inside:
   * Modern C++ Design, by Andrei Alexandrescu
   * Accelerated C++, by Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo
   * Essential C++, by Stan Lippman
   * Exceptional C++, by Herb Sutter
   * More Exceptional C++, by Herb Sutter
   
   My primary complaint is that two of the books (accelerated and essential c++), are rather beginner-oriented compared to the advanced nature of the rest of the books. The other three were great, but I found little use for accelerated and essential.

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