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Summary: Good for beginners!
Comment: This book is really a good one, for people who are not familiar with programming computer applications.
It's starting from the beginning and is explaining very well all the examples of code used in the book.
Sometimes there is too much theory used in the book, but the reader of the book, gets also a lot of practical exercises to test your knowledge.
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Summary: Teaches the fundamentals for the test
Comment: I read this book in preparation for the 70-536 exam. As the other reviews say, the latter chapters start to show a breakdown in editorial skill and in-depth description. The bottom-line is that if you have over a year of good concentrated (not college classes) programming AND you read every chapter of this book to familiarize yourself with the fundamentals covered in the test, you will probably pass. The practice tests that are included leave a little to be desired as well, while they do get you familiar with the concepts of the questions that will be asked on the actual exam, the practice test questions will not contain any of the actual questions on the test (you'll need some supplemental brain-dumps for that).
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Summary: This book is truly overly complicated
Comment: I brought this book in order to learn how to program. I wanted to take the exam. I had to get a dictionary to make it trough the text. The author seemed to take a very complicated issue, and make it even more complicated by the use of the types of words like antithesis, and obfuscate. While I know what these words mean, it would have been a much easier read if he would have used plain english. I have a bachelors in CIS, and 2 masters degrees. An MBA, and a masters in project management, and I still had a hard time making it through this text. As the other reviews have suggested, I had to purchase 2 other texts to learn the language. I have since been designing web pages for a year, and I have never, ever, opened this book again. It was a waste of the $49 bucks I paid for it.
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Summary: Revised Edition Still Incredibly Bad
Comment: I've been so frustrated with this book that I finally decided to write my first review. It's incredibly hard to read due to the ambiguities and laughable inaccuracies; and this is the "revised" copy. I went to the errata link and found that even the most obvious problems were not addressed. For example, there is 3 line code snippet on page 46 dealing with event handlers that was "corrected" and the revision on the first statement invalidated the third. The review questions often cover topics out of order or ask questions that are simply not covered anywhere in the book. You don't have to be an expert to see the problems here, but you'll have to become one to make sense out of this book.
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Summary: My first contact with dot NET
Comment: The book is my first contact with another IT world. I mean the dot NET. It guides you through all the important parts of dot NET technology. I especially appreciate a lot of working examples and way of explanation. It leads you to self-motivated learning. I mean you become courious how all the described functionality in reality really works and if IT really works :-) Thanks to the book I have found out a lot of useful functionality. It is really a good book for certification exam too. When you read it for second time you realize how well the book is organised.
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