Computer Science Books

Head First did a fantastic job on replacing the GoF classic...
Nicely written, good examples, ...
Original comparison between the patterns.
Must have!


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Year back when i looked at Head First Java Servlet series, i was amazed at how clear and simple the concepts were laid out, yea it was good for a starter i thought and did glance it here and there and was pleased.

However There are...
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The authors miss the point on pg 139 in their description of Dependency Inversion. They say, "It suggests that our high level components should not depend on our low level components; rather they should both depend on abstractions". The real...
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Not only is there a great framework to this textbook will introduce you to, but this is written in the perfect balance of interesting style and serious technical content along with compelling example that I've ever seen in any book. I give this...
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It does not reflect the current state of Rails at this time. A new version is supposed to come out in October 2008 that covers 2.0. If you get this version you will need to switch to an older version of Rails, otherwise you'll only get about 68...
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This book has a great introduction and tutorial for understanding rails for the beginning rails developer.

However, you may find that a considerable amount of the code in the tutorial does not work with Rails 2.0! Things like...
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I recommend Scott Berkun's book The Myths of Innovation to everyone willing to trade a couple hours of reading and thinking for a deeper understanding of what's holding you back in your creative endeavours, and some alternatives to help you get...
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This book is not all that. Its just a bunch of meandering ramblings from a guy whose main qualification seems to be that he worked on Internet Explorer at Microsoft. It creates just as many rah rah myths as it challenges. It is poorly written, the...
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I really liked Art of Project Management so had high expectation for this book. It took me a while to get engaged into this one, and while there are lots of interesting tidbits, I really didn't find something that sticks to my ribs. Filling, but...
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This book has all the information needed for start working and refining scrum estimation. The only complain I have is the chapter over deciding between story points and ideal days, you should skip it(just use story points) and everything else is...
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This book presents a pseudo-quantitative method for estimation for so-called agile development. Cohn suggests subjectively estimating relative size of user stories on some arbitrary scale (within one order of magnitude) in a round-table approach...
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30 Years later this book is still highly relevent. If your project is in trouble, don't add bodies!
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Both Dr. Brooks' original and anniversary book is outdated. The original 1975 was written based on experiences in the 60's and 70's while the 1995 anniversary edition is just a reprint along with chapters/articles written in the late 80's and...
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Most of the the essays in here are now common sense for any project manager. A lot of the information is obviously dated, its now over 20 years old. However, it is interesting for a historical perspective as well as to see how terminology has...
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Good book for beginner, if you are just learning get this book.There are things in this book that took me years to learn by trial and error unfortunaely for me I only learned a couple of new things, but it did give me some certainty in what I did...
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This books structure makes it very easy to get a chapter a night done and prepare you for the exam. The labs are good and the accompanying DVD contains both practice exams and a trial version of Visual Studio 2005, so you have everything you need...
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So many errors that it has to be done in 2 parts

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923018/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935218/en-us

It looks like I still have ver 1 I'm still seeing the errors listed on the...
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I also have the newer (corrected) version of the book (check the copyright page in the beginning of the book, mine lists version: 5 6 7 8 9 QWT 1 0 9 8 7). Despite the numerous corrections, I still find some errors, even those that are unlisted in...
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Little weird to review a book before actually reading it. My husband is learning English with it. I observed that it has an accessible language for those who are first exploring SCRUM.
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This is a good book with lots of valuable information around the empirical nature of Scrum. For someone who was central to creating Scrum, the book doesn't offer much more.

It's broken up into three parts: Overview of Scrum / Why it...
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ASDS is a very good book, but only for the few who want to be Scrum experts. The material is thorough, and not necessarily easy to get through, in part because the Schwaber and Beedle walk through every part of Scrum in detail, as well as cover...
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How I wish I'd had this book earlier in my programming career!

The Head First series use a novel teaching style that is designed to be engaging and informative and to work for a wide range of people. We all learn in different ways so...
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Fine enough book, but in case you were hoping for a book on Business Systems Analysis and Design using Object Oriented Techniques... this is not it. Should be Re-named to "Head First Object-Oriented SOFTWARE Analysis and Design in Java". Did this...
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I'm a supporter of the Head First approach to learning, but this one has failed to hit the mark. I can live with a fair number of typos (which this book certainly has), however bad or broken code in just too many places is not so easily...
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