No comments about Logo: Principles, Programming, and Projects/Book & Disc (Brooks/Cole Series in Computer Education).

No comments about Pakistan in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series).

1 comments about Africa (Tintin's Travel Diaries).

1. As an old fan of the Tintin adventure series, I was curious to see whether this was another adventure I had never heard of. It is actually part of a new series based on diaries Tintin may have kept during his travels.

   The "diary" provides interesting facts and beautiful photographs which give the reader an intriguing glimpse of a continent which remains a mystery to many people. It depicts another world, especially in this age of technological advances.

   The diary touches on the geography, culture, customs and the heritage of Africa. It also highlights the plight of Africa: poverty, famine, drought and political unrest.

   I liked this book because any child would find it a fascinating introduction to a great continent. The format is fun and the information concise. Adult readers will want to add it to their collection of Tintin adventures to pass on to their kids.

No comments about Computer Graphics With Pascal (The Benjamin/Cummings series in computing and information sciences).

No comments about Digital Imaging for Photographers.

No comments about Adobe Flash Professional CS3 Animation from Concept to Cartoon (Studio Techniques).

3 comments about Master VISUALLY Dreamweaver 4 and Flash 5.

1. Will someone hand me some crayons, because I don't know of any other use for this COLORING BOOK!!!

   I bought this book as a student who needed a quick reference to do homework assignments. For instance, one homework assignment was to make a template. I knew nada about Dreamweaver, so a wordy tutorial was over my head. I picked this picture filled book up and not only made a template, but understood it! Each step illustrated by lines pointing to the the screen shot menus blew me away! Oh the ease for a newbie like me. Must be paradise. But the honeymoon ended when I bought it and needed to actually make my first web page start to finish.

   The chapters jump from one topic to another. It's like several folks were working on this book who didn't communicate. There's no sequential order, just chaos. There's no troubleshooting either. If you follow steps 1-5 and they don't work, there's no "If it doesn't work, do ___" or "make sure you do ___ or it won't work." Oh, the headaches!

   I use it as a quick visual reference every now and then. But I regret spending the money because I could get references from online user tutorials. I'll never buy another book in this series again, unles of course I know a child who needs a coloring book :)




2. This book is a waste of money. If you want a great guide to Dreamweaver 4, this is about as far from one as you can get. There is more about Flash 5 than Dreamweaver, and there are more pictures than text. I'd suggest to leave this one on the shelf and check out Dreamweaver 4: The Complete Reference. You won't be dissappointed with that one.



3. (...) I was reluctant to buy this book. This book is not for the complete novice. You need to have a very basic understanding of HTML. What this book does is give you a very good over view of both Dreamweaver 4 and Flash 5. It then goes two steps further. It shows how you can use both programs together, easily, and it shows some advance functions of Flash 5.0. If you have both programs, and have a little hands on experience this is the ideal book for you. The two things that ended up being the deciding factor on getting this book was how clearly they show you where things are. This was very important to me, as my wife wanted to learn both programs and would be able to do so easily. Next, I sat down and compared this one book to two other books I was considering buying. (One was an Dreamweaver 4 book and the other a Flash 5 book.) In doing so I found that this book covered nearly everything they did, but offered the additional information on using the programs together and advance features of Flash. Price wise, it was cheaper buying this one book then buying the two.

1 comments about Introduction to Flash CS3 (DVD-ROM).

1. I found this to be a great value with a great instructor and a wonderful presentation. I will buy more Train Simple training DVDs. I have bought products from other companies and I think this is the best

1 comments about Gis: A Visual Approach.

1. This book uses graphics to introduce the basic concepts of geographic information systems (GIS). It does not provide detailed explanations but is very good at getting across the important concepts. A useful book for beginners.

1 comments about Infinite Game Universe, Volume 2: Level Design, Terrain, and Sound (Advances in Computer Graphics and Game Development Series).

1. Ok, this book is a little outdated but I just plowed through this and thought I should do a review while my recollection is fresh.
   
   It gets old real fast to read "But now is not the time or place to cover that topic in any detail" on nearly every other page.
   
   Guy, if you're going to do a third book, please actually make some non-trivial working examples. That's what we're looking for.
   
   I mean, how about create a super-simple Starflight type game with random planets, solar systems, naming scheme? Nothing fancy. I hope your third book in the series will have some, any, meat.
   
   This is such an interesting topic I hope it gets a proper treatment someday.
   
   Asides: Why use the messy realloc/malloc in your examples when stl methods would be so much cleaner?
   
   Why have hard-coded constant numbers littered everywhere, and then spend 5 lines of comments explaining "a real app would never do this". Wouldn't it be easier to just add a #define?
   
   Example bins from the CD do not run on Vista64. Perhaps need to include some support libraries?
   
   Was unable to find an errata section for this book with google, but I know there should be one as I found series errors on the first few pages...