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Greg Wilson , Andy Oram
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  • Paperback: 620 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (3 July 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0596510047
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596510046
  • Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 18 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 233,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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PC Book Review, October 2007

If you want to take your mindset as a developer to the next level, this is a good book.

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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Whilst some of the chapters in this book are real gems, the others are irrelevant. The target audience is too wide, too many languages are used and the chances are it won't make you a better programmer.

I would skip this and read a book like Clean Code instead.
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I agree somewhat with what the other reviewers have said, but then you must take into account that there are 30+ authors here, and each one will have very different things to say and as many ways to say it. You could say that an editor should have taken care of equalizing the book, normalizing the styles, but I think that will destroy the spirit of it. It's true that there are many technologies and languages, but I don't think that is a mess, but the obvious result from putting together many great minds from different backgrounds and dealing with many different problems. It won't make you a better programmer, but I don't think that was the target of the book. This is not a cookbook or a book to teach you C++ in 21 days. This is something else. Think of it as an essay (or a collection of) or a documentary series. I still didn't read all articles, and because of the sheer variety and ample scope of the book, I will probably never read them all, but for sure I can tell you some of the chapters are also powerful motivators. With the daily corporate grind, you can get somewhat jaded sometimes with tech, but this is a foray into the joys of problem solving, the eureka moment, the pleasure of coding. For me, not a waste of time, definitely.
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This was a very interesting book with some good very clear, thought provoking articles, while others were written by people who were not used to writing. The book suffers from an inconsistant style and some chapters do let it down. Overall you can pick out the chapters that interst you and study them, leaing the other chapters out.
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