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Palm Programming for the Absolute Beginner w/CD (For the Absolute Beginner (Series).)

Andy Harris

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Total reviews: 19 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Should be titled learn PocketC programming 4 out of 5 stars.
20 of 21 people found this review helpful.

Yes, PocketC is a nice productive development environment for Palm - but it is based on a proprietary hybrid of the C language - and the whole book is centered around this specific development environment - if you think the book will cover standard c/c++ (e.g. using the gnu C++ compiler), you're in for a shock! Also, you have to BUY PocketC after 45 days, because it is shareware - the standard development environment offered by Palm (based on the Eclipse integrated environment & gnu c++) is FREE

Good for beginners, with caveats 3 out of 5 stars.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.

PocketC is an excellent programming platform for Palm devices. I have used it to create simple programs, and it turns out, with little more care, can be used to create professional quality programs. This book does not show you how to create professional quality programs with PocketC. However, it is a good book to start if you want to learn programming in your own time.

Personally, I find the program samples rather useless, and not at all fun. Perhaps better examples should have been used. Watch out for amateurish code! Plenty of them peppers the examples. Most annoying is rectangles intersection code. The author admits it is faulty, and instead of fixing it, provides excuses for it. Why didn't he ask his smart programmer friend on how to fix it? It's not a hard problem. Some of the slowness of the code may stem from the way CControls works, so you may do better providing your own code. A reading of Algorithm by Robert Sedgewick can prove useful.

Good points: Easy reading, accessible for beginners. Good PocketC packages. STAIR principle.

Bad points: Amateurish code. Lots of space padding pictures. Not all examples are useful program.

Editorial Review:

The popularity of handheld technology is growing at a rapid rate. This book takes a fun approach to this difficult programming topic, teaching readers the fundamentals they need to know through the unique method of game programming. Readers create games for their PDA as they learn the basics of the Pocket C programming language. It is perfect for the hobbyist or moderately technically savvy computer user who wants to customize their PDA.

UNIX(r) Shell Programming, 4th Edition

Lowell Jay Arthur, Ted Burns

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Total reviews: 23 Average rating: 2.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Harness the power of shells . . . for the Internet and beyond

Completely revised and updated to include the latest developments in Internet and business applications, UNIX Shell Programming, Fourth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of Bourne, Korn, C, and BASH shells. Using a specially developed three-step process, this invaluable guide takes you through the entire universe of UNIX shell, from simple commands and programming to the world of software developers and system administrators.

Using this comprehensive book, you'll be able to choose the shell that's right for you -whatever your needs or background.

UNIX Shell Programming, Fourth Edition gives you:
* Practical guidance on how to create CGI scripts, object warehouses, and reuse catalogs
* Everything on shell extensions for management of distributed environments
* A special shell reference appendix containing real-life examples that you can use right now

Visit the book's companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/unixshell

Introduction to PCI Express: A Hardware and Software Developer's Guide

Adam Wilen, Justin P. Schade, Ron Thornburg

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Editorial Review:

This book offers an introduction to the new I/O technology, PCI Express*, designed to allow increasing levels of computer system performance. The book details how PCI Express technology allows designers to overcome the practical performance limits of existing multi-drop, parallel bus technology. It explains how to increase performance and add new capabilities for a broad range of computing and communications platforms. Relevant technical considerations are presented that both hardware and software developers need to comprehend in order to employ PCI Express technology in next generation systems.

Dan Appleman's Win32 API Puzzle Book and Tutorial for Visual Basic Programmers

Dan Appleman

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

The key to accessing the power of every operating system is its application programming interface (API). Visual Basic can access only part of the Windows API without special help. To write the most powerful possible programs, VB programmers need to work with all of the API. The big problem for VB programmers in trying to do so is that all of the available documentation on the Windows API is written for C++ programmers. In other words, the directions for using the API is written in a language that VB programmers don't understand.

Dan Appleman's Win32 API Puzzle Book and Tutorials for Visual BasicProgrammers shows VB programmers how to turbocharge Visual Basic by teaching them how to understand Microsoft's documentation to control the entire Windows API. Appleman's unique puzzle format includes 32 sample programs that almostbut don't quitework. Each puzzle has a solution with an in-depth explanation of the problem, why it occurs, and why the solution works. By avoiding the usual dry "lecture" style so common in technical books, this guide will keep you awakein fact, some of the puzzles may keep you awake nights searching for a solution. And when you've finished, you'll have an understanding of the technology that will qualify you as a true API guru.

With a writing style that combines technical competence, humor, and a bit of "attitude," Appleman proves once again in this long-awaited complement to his previous bestseller, Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API, that learning advanced technology can (and should) be fun.

Novell Netware 6.5 CNA Exam Cram 2

Warren Wyrostek

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Exam Cram Helps (But you also need experience); CD Bites 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Passed with 700 on first try.

I thought I was pretty advanced already - I have installed and upgraded many 6.5 servers, clients, managed a huge e-dir tree, file system, NSS volumes, rights, NDPS. I thought I was totally ready for the test.

Just to make sure I wasn't wasting my $125 on the test, I figured $20 for this book was good insurance. And it SO was!

The test includes a lot of little esoteric facts about NetWare that even someone with lots of experience might never see. This book does a good job of bringing all of those little esoteric facts to light.

The sample questions at the end of each chapter and sample tests at the end of the book are also very good simulations of the type of questions you'll see. However, I wouldn't say that any of the questions are word-for-word from the real test.

Also, there were some questions on the test that I didn't feel received adequate coverage in this book. Experience got me through those questions.

The sample test questions on the included CD are clearly written by someone else. Some of them made no sense grammatically. It only includes multiple choice and fill-in questions. (The test has several other types of questions).

The fill-in style questions on the CD also have a little quirk: unlike the real test, it is case sensitive. If the answer is "2" on a fill-in question, the real test will accept 2, two, Two, TWO, to, and too (so even bad spellers can get it right). But on the sample test CD, the answer might be programmed as "TWO" and "two", "2" and anything else is wrong.

I didn't actually learn anything useful from this book, except how to use what I already know about NW 6.5 to pass Novell's exam. I would emphasize that you should already know a lot about Netware and have some recent and fairly advanced experience before reading this book and certainly before attempting the test.

On second thought, I did find one very useful bit of information: Appendix A has a very informative table of IP ports used by all Novell products. It is the first time I have seen this information collected in one place.

Editorial Review:

The Certified Novell Administrator (CNA) certification is the frist step to becoming Novell certified. To pass this important exam, you need to surround yourself with the most comprehensive, exam-focused materials on the market. That's where Novell Netware 6.5 CNA Exam Cram 2 comes in. You will be able to focus your knowledge with this guide, which emphasizes the learning topics of the CNA exam and closely follows the exam objectives. Step-by-step lessons offer the no-nonsense, straight-forward information needed to pass the exam. It is accompanied by a CD-ROM that features a fully customizable PrepLogic practice test engine with a detailed score report. Prepare for the CNA with the smartest, most efficient way to study — the Novell Netware 6.5 CNA Exam Cram 2.

Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management (The Cambridge Wireless Essentials Series)

Martin Cave, Chris Doyle, William Webb

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Editorial Review:

Are you fully up-to-speed on today's modern spectrum management tools? As regulators move away from traditional spectrum management methods, introduce spectrum trading and consider opening up more spectrum to commons, do you understand the implications of these developments for your own networks? This is the first book to describe and evaluate modern spectrum management tools. Expert authors offer you unique insights into the technical, economic and management issues involved. Auctions, administrative pricing, trading, property rights and spectrum commons are all explained. A series of real-world case studies from around the world is used to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches adopted by different regulators, and valuable lessons are drawn from these. This concise and authoritative resource is a must-have for telecom regulators, network planners, designers and technical managers at mobile and fixed operators and broadcasters, and academics involved in the technology and economics of radio spectrum.

Operating Systems Concepts with Java

Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Well written book with a lot of figures and diagram 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 7 people found this review helpful.

This book was well written. I am a graduate computer science student, who rarely used this book, but when I had reviewed the book provided detail information. This book helps you understand a lot about the overall fundamentals of Computer-System Structure, Processes, Threads, CPU Scheduling, Synchronization, Deadlocks, and Memory Management.

Editorial Review:

* New edition of the bestseller provides readers with a clear description of the concepts that underlie operating systems
* Uses Java to illustrate many ideas and includes numerous examples that pertain specifically to popular operating systems such as UNIX, Solaris 2, Windows NT and XP, Mach, the Apple Macintosh OS, IBM's OS/2 and Linux
* Style is even more hands-on than the previous edition, with extensive programming examples written in Java and C
* New coverage includes recent advances in Windows 2000/XP, Linux, Solaris 9, and Mac OS X
* Detailed case studies of Windows XP and Linux give readers full coverage of two very popular operating systems
* Also available from the same authors, the highly successful Operating System Concepts, Sixth Edition (0-471-25060-0)

COM and .NET Interoperability

Andrew Troelsen

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

COM and .NET Interoperability provides a complete overview of the process of building .NET applications that interact (interoperate) with existing COM code. Before digging into that critical topic, author Andrew Troelsen offers a concise overview of the COM architecture and provides examples using various COM frameworks (C++, ATL, and VB 6.0) as well as the core .NET managed languages (C# and VB .NET).

After covering the preliminaries, the book explores numerous issues that arise in interoperability, including interacting with the Win32 API, dynamically generating source code via System.CodeDOM, creating serviced (COM+) components using managed code, manually editing (and recompiling) .NET metadata, and the process of constructing custom COM/.NET conversion utilities. Both intermediate and advanced developers will welcome the practical information they need to quickly work with COM and COM+ in .NET applications, and learn how to create .NET components that are COM compatible.

Hands-On Novell NetWare 6.0/6.5, Enhanced Edition

Ted Simpson

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Editorial Review:

Prepares students for the real-world challenges of setting up, managing, and securing a Netware 6.0/6.5 network and for the Certified Novell Administrator (CNA) exam.

Mobile Phone Programming: and its Application to Wireless Networking

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Editorial Review:

This book provides a solid overview of mobile phone programming targeting both academia and industry. The book covers all commercial realizations of Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux platforms. Each programming language (JAVA, Python, C/C++) and a set of development environments are introduced “step by step” making developers familiar with current limitations, pitfalls, and challenges.

Each chapter contains examples and source code to rapidly make developers familiar with the most important concepts. Examples cover peer to peer networks, cooperative networking, cross layer protocol design, key challenges such as power consumption, and sensor networks for which a full hardware and software implementation is provided.

The book’s DVD contains all presented development environments and source code examples. Whether you are an experienced developer or an advanced student this book will be your key reference for successfully entering the world of software development for mobile devices.