Software Books

Materials covered in certain chapters are equivalent to a one semester class at MIT.. though in less detail, the lucid explanation of the fundamental concepts are impressive.. this book is a very good start for someone who has never touched the subject of Parallel Computing before.

This book provides great insight into the _performance_ of hardware. How can one be a good programmer without knowing how it is that data gets to memory, how data flows through the CPU and what it is in the hardware that makes ones code fast or slow? It amazes me that most of the developers that I work with are ignorant or could not care less about the effects of cache misses, what superscalar/superpipelined really means, and how a "improper" stride through their array can make the performance of their code deplorable. This book makes for a great read and is guaranteed to make a programmer a better programmer.

Explains very nicely and precisely the HW fundamentals of the multiprocessors, memory, insights in software and optimization concepts. Very much useful for not to get confused by the buzzwords in the super computer industry. Good book for both the engineers and the sales people of hardware companies. If you are new engineer in processor design or compiler architecture jobs, this book gives lot of insight and learning needed for your job.

It is an excellent book I have read. It includes the latest state of art IA-64 architure, RISC, compiler ...

Finally, a book that gives *real* info about the software publishing business. Even professionals will benefit from reading this one.

Not so much of "How I did it", but more of "How you can do it", which is actually more important.

Aimed at selling your software in the mass market, gives lessons and ideas for selling through publishers and superstores, but not much about selling direct, especially on the web, maybe next printing revision.

Lots of good ideas, and if you haven't started on your software idea yet, this book will make you want to start.

Very easy reading, and thin too! Good for the midnight programmer / day tripper.

Great primer for the rookie and veteran software marketer. Well organized, real world scenarios, debunks industry jargon. A must for any prospective software entrepreneurs.

Author Herbert Kraft candidly reveals all the insider tips you need for launching a software product.

He tells you what failed and what worked for him. I started working on a software project that I feel sure will sell to the commercial market, thanks to his advice in the book.

My favorite part: which kinds of software titles sell and which don't.

Don't launch your software without this book. Well worth the price of the book. Mine is full of post-its to mark all the great stuff!

Best book on PowerPoint I've found. Has great info for new and more experienced users.

How To Do Everything With PowerPoint 2002 by Ellen Finkelstein, is completely "user friendly" solutions-packed guide illustrates how to create high-quality, attention-getting, impressive, PowerPoint presentations quickly and easily by effectively using text, graphics and multimedia. In addition, How To Do Everything With PowerPoint 2002 also includes useful tips on delivering any presentation like a pro!

This book shows you how to do everything with PowerPoint 2002 (that's from the title!) - yet the best part of the book is that everything is explained in an easy yet comprehensive style. No task is too difficult - no idea too far to grasp. One might imagine that since this book seems so easy, it might cover just the basics - yet the book goes much beyond mere basics to encompass topics like macros, distribution, delivery, customization - and an excellent chapter on charts. Finally, you'll find snippets of extra info from presentation gurus worldwide - all in one book!

Geetesh Bajaj/Indezine.com

This book makes it easy to look up my answers. I love the cautions Ellen gives. She gives a caution about being sure the hyperlink color shows up on the slide. All these pointers make it easy for me to help my clients. This is a perfect book for a novice who can easily follow her directions and it's great for me as I know lots but need some help in certain areas. I found that help easily. She's got call out boxes called tips, short-cuts, cautions, did you know and how to's. There's an excellent chapter on creating charts. I will use this as a reference for when my clients ask me questions as well as an update for what's inside PowerPoint 2002. You will only create better more effective presentations using Ellen's tips and easy to follow pointers.

IN A NUTSHELL: DESPERATELY NEEDS TO BE UPDATED

Quicksilver hasn't changed as fast as computers and a chameleon couldn't keep up with personal computing over the last twenty years. Therefore, why should one be surprised to find this wonderfully insightful how-to personal computing handbook, a bit obsolete.

The problem with this text is simply that it needs to be made into a new edition, since reading through it leaves an anxious kind of nostalgia as though all of this happened about 100 years ago.

WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT: BEFORE WINDOWS 2000 - USB - BURNING CDs & BROADBAND INTERNET CONNECTIONS

Accepting the fact that this book, featuring Windows 95, modems, old fashioned serial port connections and the like could never have been published before being a bit obsolete, it is still useful to people just getting the hang of personal computers -- like my 86 year old mother. In most cases, whatever computer they have or have had will be around there household as long as it works. So Windows 2000 and other newer applications may not be essential or even relevant for the Grandma Bunny in your lives.

HELPFUL FOR BASIC HOME COMPUTING INCLUDING INTERNET COMMUNICATION VIA A MODEM

Everything in this book is easily understood and comes with a lot of illustrations and practical advice. In essence, this book can act as a surrogate computer tech for people who have recently decided to delve into personal computing for the internet and possibly to communicate with family - long distance. Everything you need, including a handy CD to plug into your PC comes with this book and it can be quite a security blanket while your getting started. Even a troubleshooting section is included a covers most of the most likely problems in computing along with most of the solutions that may be predicted. Though broadband connections and burning CDs are not even mentioned here, most people just getting into PCs are probably getting the internet via a modem and aren't thinking about burning CDs yet.

IN 2000 THIS TEXT WAS $49.95

Writing letters, using Windows Works, PowerPoint and other Windows programs are illustrated and reinforced by the CD that is included. For people that are not in need of the cutting edge applications and programs this book and the helpful CD that is included is a real steal today at just $1-2 plus S&H. It is also highly available from public libraries, which is where I found the copy I have read.

BOTTOM LINE: A UPDATED EDITION IS SORELY NEEDED BUT THIS IS STILL A USEFUL AID

I purchased this book for my senior parents who have in the past year bought not one, but two new computers. Brave as they are, computer jargon is new to them, and sometimes I am hard pressed to help them out long distance. It was great to find this book that looks SO MUCH like the red Reader's Digest Do-It-Yourself book that has occupied my father's bookshelves for as long as I can remember. That familiarity is bound to feel something like climbing a new mountain in a pair of comfortable old jeans.

As a technophobe whose spine turns to syrup when I encounter video machine instructions or, worse still, who feels positively assaulted by those iniquitously obscure computer manuals, I was delighted to have been given this lucid new computer book.

And, having completed a few of the useful but easy projects, my enthusiasm transmuted into gratitude and respect, for HOW TO DO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING ON A COMPUTER is the most invaluable and accessible book of its kind I've ever seen, designed for those who dislike obscurity and who, conversely, enjoy clarity, lack of prententiousness and extreme utility.

Such excellence of communication is the Reader's Digest hallmark, and this magnificent book is a premier example of a story well told - and a superb guide to unleashing your computer's awesome power.

As you turn its pages, you are taken on a vivid tour that makes your computer your servant rather than your master. It, literally, puts you in the pilot's seat. No longer will your home computer merely be used to churn out those tedious Christmas Round Robins, but you'll find that it will, with the aid of this book, sprout wings and whisk you into the New Millennium with a host of engaging projects.

Now you can engage your wider family with an impressive full-colour family magazine instead of the Round Robin. And it will be enhanced by the inclusion of home-scanned photographs of little Sally's first walk. Within minutes you'll be turning out professional letterheads, creating menu planners or eye-catching CVs. Indeed, as the title suggests, you and your family will now be able to turn out 'just about anything'. Amazingly, this book shows you how to use your computer to compose music, paint pictures and much more!

You'll be taught how to use Internet - in minutes rather than hours! - and shown how to do historical research. It will lead you step-by-step (and, thankfully, picture by picture) through such arcane obscurities as how to inject more 'oomph' into your PC, how to maximise disc space and how to chase away those naughty viruses.

This book does everything a major and thoroughly entertaining computer course would do - and is suitable not only for the beginner but also for the middle-weight and the advanced user. As a face-to-face course could cost thousands of dollars, the value of this book is, accordingly, immense.

And in comtemplating the myriad of uses readers would find for this book, I thought at once of how teachers would find it invaluable, for they are always seeking clear and well-organised classroom material. This book is ideal for them - not only for instructional use - but also as an essential inclusion in every school or college library.

The Reader's Digest have a knack with language and have found a formula for reaching the great, vibrant majority of mankind. This book exemplifies these skills, for it is as accessible and as appealing to ten-year-olds as it is to post-docs. Created, I'm told, partly in response to the growing need of baby boomers to learn skills they missed in their youth, this comprehensive book will surely satisfy their needs handsomely.

Congratulations, Reader's Digest, for opening the doors to the wonderful world of computers for the vast mass of mankind - and for having so sensitively considered the fears of technophobes!

I purchased this book for my senior parents who have in the past year bought not one, but two new computers. Brave as they are, computer jargon is new to them, and sometimes I am hard pressed to help them out long distance. It was great to find this book that looks SO MUCH like the red Reader's Digest Do-It-Yourself book that has occupied my father's bookshelves for as long as I can remember. That familiarity is bound to feel something like climbing a new mountain in a pair of comfortable old jeans.

I read your book and find it quite enjoyable. While most computer books are boring, yours is not. I hope you will do another someday.

This book helped me with a number of computer problems. The author makes it easy to read and easy to find information.

Sandy Berger is one of us. She understands that not all of us are computer geeks, yet nearly all of us have or will soon have a computer. This book is written in easy to chew bytes and makes the process of purchasing and maintaining a computer system something other than a horrible experience.

This book is a great way to discover what all the interplanetary terms and acronyms salespeople smirkingly throw at you while wandering around a computer store. SCUZZI? Local Bus? PCMCIA slots? Flash BIOS? The average buyer knows not of these things. I liked the way this book takes you by the hand and gently guides you through the maze of the computer world.

I'm a self-taught, read-as-you-go, experiment-at-will designer and have learned software without professional guidance. And there is much basic computerese I have missed along the way. My suggestion would be for all of you out there who are either considering purchasing a computer system or have one but are fairly clueless as to REALLY understanding what you have at your fingertips, to purchase this book immediately, read it from cover to cover, and sit back smugly with a cup of coffee, secure in the knowledge that you now are at least as smart as your computer.

Can this be a 'serious' computing guide? Yes, it is. Sandy weaves lots of clear-spoken, practical help for the layperson with a very inspiring view of what computing can do to expand your world. The title does indeed capture the essence. We teach at-home computing for Seniors; this book paves a nice path for our work.

This has been an invaluable resource and is definately among the top 2 favorite books on SPSS that I presently own. It is clear, simple, and user friendly. I like how it provides examples of how to write up the results section.

This is a good book if you have already taken a intermediate bio stats course.

It is good for review.

But this is not a textbook & suffers from all the pitfalls of "Industry Learning Books", it is not real explanatory & does not give the answers to problems assigned in the book. I always hated this, how am I supposed to know for sure, if I have the right answer?

These types of books seem too cheap, to spend more money on an extra half page of text (or less actually), explaining the answers to a problem.

I don't know why, & I would spend more money on purchase for this. But this is a theme all these industry books have, & it degrades them from textbook quality.

HTH

This is an excellent product... Without it I would have been lost interpreting findings after using the SSP 14.0 statistical program. arrived in excellent condition. Only issue, arrived later than I expected, having paid for expedited delivery.

This is really a great book. I don't think I would have made it through stats without it!

This book gives a thorough presentation about projection-based model order reduction (MOR) techniques, including AWE and PRIMA. It is very helpful for anyone who wants to implement these algorithms. Detailed step-by-step explainations are presented in a clear way so that I can easily convert them into C codes. However, the readers must have good background knowledge on related matrix computation techniques so that they can follow the text more smoothly. It's recommended to finish chapter 9 of the bible textbook "Matrix Computations" by Gene Golub and Charles Van Loan before diving into PRIMA algorithm.

The book contents are very relevant, and the explanation is clear. To get the most out of this book, you may need to know concepts like laplace tranform, transfer function, Krylov vectors etc.

This book would make a good classroom textbook. It is perfect for anyone getting started in this field.

Great book. Looks like intended for newcomers to the field, but experienced users can use it as a reference. Requires some mathematical background though.

Donald Alcock's Illustrating C is not just an outstanding intro into writing _idiomatic_ c, but it's a really beautiful model of how to put across a whole lot of the beautiful ideas of Computer Science. His illo's are hand drawn. Imagine really good blackboard illustrations of standard C.S. topics like linked lists and hash tables and so on, tidied up for publication. It just kills me that this wonderful little book is out of print. If you are a programmer of any stripe and you see a copy of this rascal, dive for it. You'll be glad you did. If you are a grizzled programmer that is taking up C, you'll find it a delight. If you are a gamer kid wanting to get into real programming, you'll find it hard, but worthwhile because there's so much great stuff presented in such a condensed manner. What a swell book!

This is the best C book on the market for visual thinkers like me! I used it to re-engineer a large embedded development project a few years ago. It's the only book I have found that explained link lists well. Buy it NOW!

Yes this book is very difficult to find.. The author has an incredible way of explaining each concept within a page or two, in a very concise and inuitive manor. This book is great for beginners, and equally valuable to the more advanced programmers. A must have for the library...

I got an "A" in my C course. And I used 5 text books. The ONLY textbook that really helped was Alcock's "Illustrating C". It uses diagrams in a truly "revolutionary" way that really helps understanding. It's like moving from black and white to colour. The intention is to provide the student with a set of course notes, complete with instructor black-board diagrams -- only better. It really works. It's enjoyable. Did I mention I got an "A"? I hope that other textbook writers pick up on Mr. Alcock's unique style! Bravo!!! I found C difficult until Mr. Alcock's diagrams made things clear -- the mysterious problem in teaching seems to be that many teachers and textbooks stop JUST BEFORE they reach the foundation of the matter -- and then you have to guess what's really going on. I suspect that this is because many teachers or textbook writers really don't have a profound understanding of their material -- and this becomes a difficulty for the student. Mr. Alcock understands the foundation of the matter and has managed to present it in the most accessible manner. You can really really learn from this surprisingly slight book!!! Bravo again!!!

Ms. Cohen's Quickstart Guide to InDesign was perfect for me to get a, er ... quick start in learning this sophisticated design tool. I write this as someone who's had lots of experience with other computer tools, but who's new to page layout; although I expect it'd be equally helpful to anyone who'd dare to approach anything as complex as a desktop page layout program.

The book's strengths, for me, are that it stays to the essentials (while including all of the essentials), is clearly and abundantly illustrated with screen shots, and focuses on a how-to approach with concise and consistently clear explantaions throughout. A perfect combination for me was to use this book to get started ... quickly ... and to refer to the Adobe manual and on-line help to research specific features in more depth.

Another of my favorite features is Ms. Cohen's informative, engaging and often amusing commentary in the chapter intros and sidebars. These lend a personal and welcoming touch to her deft and experienced treatment of her information-dense topic, and remind us that words can be fun, too.

Ms. Cohen's Quickstart Guide to InDesign was perfect for me to get a, er ... quick start in learning this sophisticated design tool. I write this as someone who's had lots of experience with other computer tools, but who's new to page layout; although I expect it'd be equally helpful to anyone who'd dare to approach anything as complex as a desktop page layout program.

The book's strengths, for me, are that it stays to the essentials (while including all of the essentials), is clearly and abundantly illustrated with screen shots, and focuses on a how-to approach with concise and consistently clear explantaions throughout. A perfect combination for me was to use this book to get started ... quickly ... and to refer to the Adobe manual and on-line help to research specific features in more depth.

Another of my favorite features is Ms. Cohen's informative, engaging and often amusing commentary in the chapter intros and sidebars. These lend a personal and welcoming touch to her deft and experienced treatment of her information-dense topic, and remind us that words can be fun, too.

This is my favorite book in the "Quick Start" series; as a novice typesetter and Adobe products users, I have them all. This is written in plain, everyday English, not tech-talk and begins at the beginning of the layout process with getting your first page formatted with margins and other variables. It also includes a quick start for Pagemaker and Quark users who might be more familiar with page layout programs. Numerous illustrations on each page help one figure out, among other things, what the buttons look like and what a baseline guide is. While InDesign borrows much from Pagemaker, Photoshop and Illustrator, it combines them into one program so one doesn't have to switch from one program to another to perform a task. This is my choice for InDesign books, although as the program matures, many others will surely follow. If you buy only one book about InDesign, buy this one. Aside from its' usefulness, it is an outstanding value, too!

This is the best yet book in this series. It is arranged logically and begins at the beginning in simple English and takes one through the program step by step, each step building on the one before it and adding to your proficiency level. I have sat with this book and followed it exactly and I think that it has been excellent in getting me started. Now I actually know enough to ask questions and look things up in the index! It truly is an easily understood book and very comprehensive and if you have any prior experience with Quark or Pagemaker, it will be a breeze to get up and running with InDesign. This book is an excellent value and the one you should really buy first. I doubt you'll need any of the others after reading this one.

Even though the price is really high, there is a reason for that! This is a must have for security professionals.
Rick
CISSP/MCSE

I agree with all the other reviews that say that this book has everything you could possibly want for writing a Security Policy for your company. The price includes a single-company license for copying the copyrighted text into your security policy. Consultants will need to purchase a new license for each company they develop a policy for.

As the "Version 7" implies, this is a work in progress. As such, I expected to see a "Reader's Comment Form" at the back so the reader could notify the author of subjects he might add in the next version or of errors or omissions detected. There is no such form. I also found that I received only canned or sluggish sales responses from the email address listed on the back cover. I was surprised to find such a poorly-managed business associated with such an excellent book.

Think developing or updating security policies is a nightmare? Rather have root canal without the anesthetic? Purchase this book and you will be on a quick and painless path to getting meaningful security policies in place. The book is well organized making it a breeze to find what your looking for. Each policy also includes an excellent commentary that describes the policy's intent. Many of the policies are technology neutral making it easy to develop consistent and uniform policies across all computing platforms. It's well worth the investment.

Point Blank: If you have to deliver a security policy by a specified date, use this book. Quite simply, you will spend more time with your family and less time working. The book helps remove the pressure to perform.