IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 5/5
This is an excellent reference that gets to the point and doesn't beat around the bush. Easily understandable.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Apache Jakarta-Tomcat
Publisher: Apress
Authors: James Goodwill
Rating: 2/5
Title: Apache Jakarta-Tomcat
Publisher: Apress
Authors: James Goodwill
Rating: 2/5
A very good start for developers who want to know the basic of Tomcat 4.0. The book not only explains Tomcat architecture well, it also has screen shots to support those examples. Very good writeout, much better than the other books. This book will definitely benefit the beginner to intermediate developers who want to know Tomcat in the shortest time.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: MCSE Test Success: SQL Server 7 Administration
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Michael Lee, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 5/5
Title: MCSE Test Success: SQL Server 7 Administration
Publisher: Sybex Inc
Authors: Michael Lee, Rick Sawtell
Rating: 5/5
This book was a great study aid while preparing for the 70-028 test. Does it give you the answers for the test, no. Does it review key subject area necessary for passing the test, yes. Too many paper MCSEs (or wannabes) expect to get the answers to the test before taking the test. The purpose of these exams is to test your knowledge of the product and not how well you memorized the questions from practice exams. Using a book like this, BOL, and the product, you should be able to pass the exam. And for you people who expect to get the answers to the test before you take the test, there are at least two questions that I saw from this book on the test.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 2000: A Beginner's Guide (Book/CD-ROM)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Dusan Petkovic
Rating: 1/5
Title: SQL Server 2000: A Beginner's Guide (Book/CD-ROM)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Dusan Petkovic
Rating: 1/5
Poorly written. Goes around in circles; no obvious beginning, ending, or guiding points along the way.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The SQL Server 7.0 Handbook : A Guide to Microsoft Database Computing
Publisher: Digital Press
Authors: Ken England, Nigel Stanley
Rating: 5/5
Title: The SQL Server 7.0 Handbook : A Guide to Microsoft Database Computing
Publisher: Digital Press
Authors: Ken England, Nigel Stanley
Rating: 5/5
This is a great introduction to SQL Server 7. I am using SQL Server as the back end for a data base backed website. My experience had been with desktop databases like Access or an older UNIX version of Informix and this book brought me up to speed on SQL 7 quickly. This book was the best introduction to SQL Server that I have found. I bought 5 other book on SQL 7 and found this to be the best. The book was easy to read and had the right balance of overview information and detail. It was also short yet thorough which is underated. I think this book has more good info than a lot of books with over a 1,000 pages. A good author will boil the essential information down so the reader doesn't have too.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
Title: SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide
Publisher: Osborne Publishing
Authors: Michael Otey, Paul Conte
Rating: 5/5
If you only want one book on the subject of developing for SQL Server 7.0, this book is it. What separates this book from others is its ability to successfully transition from a 50,000' overview to the ground level where the job is done. The process of landing high level concepts occurs through resolving timeless issues that confront every professional developer, regardless of the platform. This book takes on the fundamentals of SQL, provides insight on database design techniques and then explains the mechanics of how to link an application with SQL Server. Although there are books available on each of these subjects, the authors present the information with the right blend of brevity & thoroughness.SQL Server 7.0 has many new features. The authors do a complete job of explaining what the new features are. They have provided insights and tips you need to know when it is time to set up and administrate the database. The book also nicely covers replication, a subject given one page in Soukup's "Inside SQL Server," and ignored in Vaughn's "Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server."I found this book clearly written and concise, although it is almost one thousand pages. Code samples provided on the CD actually work. This is not a comment on the authors - similar books have burned me too many times whose CDs do not support the text. Like the rest of the book, the code is clear, and insightful. I look forward to future books by these authors.
Product: Book Hardcover
Title: MCSA/MCSE/MCDBA Self-Paced Training Kit: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 System Administration, 70-228, Second Edition
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Corporation
Rating: 5/5
Title: MCSA/MCSE/MCDBA Self-Paced Training Kit: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 System Administration, 70-228, Second Edition
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Authors: Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Corporation
Rating: 5/5
First of all, I won't write a review if I cannot give a product at least 4 stars. I do have to give this one 5 though.
I don't like everything Microsoft Press publishes, but this book is quite good. I was very new to SQL and had to learn quickly. This book and "The SQL Server 2000 Book" by Anthony Sequeira saved me from severe panic attacks.
If you want to learn about SQL Server 2000 take my advice, PLEASE!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors: Ken Henderson
Rating: 5/5
I bought this book because my programming team needed a good reference for writing stored procedures. So far, it has exceeded my expectations. It is truly excellent. In my opinion it lives up to the many good reviews.When I move on to another job and have to leave this book behind, I'll buy my own copy. I can't give it a higher recommendation than that.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Matt Zandstra
Rating: 1/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Matt Zandstra
Rating: 1/5
Hello,
This book starts off good and easy, simple up to Hour 8.
Then it becomes ridicously difficult, with no warning.
I do not recommend this book to beginners, only to experienced object orientated programmers, e.g. Java, etc..
Bye
Eddie
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 3/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 3/5
Not the best for the beginner. Personally I hate it when incredibly advanced programmers write books. They use abbreviations for variables that I found hard to follow, tons of 'include' files, which if you aren't familar with programming is excellent real world practice, but, not the best way to do things when you're trying to learn and understand the language, or an example. This book has been used as an alternative reference when an example in my other books isn't exactly clear, as another perspective. Cutting corners with abreviations and include files is fine when you're doing a project for a client and time is of the essence, but not when you're trying to explain concepts to the learning masses!
