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A**R
Just source code of a completed project and none of the code is documented, useless book
Amateur hour. The book is HORRIBLY written and edited, having an incredible number of grammatical errors, sentences starting without capitalization, sentences that simply make no logical sense etc. It is obvious that this is not a professionally written book and certainly has not been subjected to editing or quality control. The very few written sections are laughably bad.What is worse is the book is largely worthless. It is simply the printed source code of a completed accounting VS project that you can download from a tiny url link. There are no summaries or logical explanations accompanying any of the module/class listings. In fact, the actual source code is not documented AT ALL. Seriously, that is the first thing you learn in your first programming class, DOCUMENT YOUR CODE.There are a few screenshots scattered throughout, but at such poor resolution, most of the controls you can't read and none of the controls have their property labels diagrammed, so you can't even reference the code to the screenshot. Cryptic naming of classes and variables make trying to read the code even worse. I do not understand the purpose of this book or what the author intended. The author claims "This project and database is design and coding by expert programmer who more than 10 years in teaching and working with fact project for enterprises". Uh, yeah. "The author has also published more than 20,000 paper books and is used as a curriculum for IT students at many prestigious universities. all most of knowledge about C# language, SQL Server from beginner to advanced has been repacking in one project." Yes, that last sentence started with all and not All and is how this entire book is written. At least you can make some sense of that. There are some sentences that are so poorly written as to be unintelligible. All your code are belong to us!Aside from being horribly written, including only source code, none of which is documented, the code itself seems ancient. In thumbing through the 400 pages, I saw no delegates, no lambda expressions, no LINQ, as if this was written in VS 2005 or earlier. The code functions (what parts of it I tried), but really, isn't well written, especially by today's standards and is definitely not an example of how you would write this app today.Simply, there is nothing "Practice C#" about this book and given the archaic coding style, doesn't even make for good coding examples, especially given that the author decided not to document a single line of code which is really baffling given the size of the project.While the book is priced cheaply and the cover looks professional, features trademarked MS logos on the back, certainly without Microsoft's permission, you don't get what you pay for. Not even close. I have seen a lot of bad programming books, this is by far the worst. For advanced programmers, the functions the app performs are far too simple. For newer programmers who have perhaps just finished their first semester of C#, the book is useless as it doesn't seem to use any features released after .Net 3.5 a good 13 years ago, so a lot of it won't look familiar at all and certainly is not how you would want to learn to do it. Again, without code documentation, it is hard to follow.To the author, you should hire an editor, document your code, update your code to use features of C# added this decade. Also, add some diagrammed labels to the controls in the screenshots, so that those controls can be referenced in code. As it stands, the only way to make heads or tails is to toss the book in the trash after downloading the proj from the tiny url and partake in the Sanskrit equivalent of C#.For someone who claims to have written 20,000 books used in prestigious universities, this effort is next-level horrible and I am seriously doubting all of the claims made by the author in the introduction.
F**R
An astoundingly bad editing job, to say the least
All you have to do is read the blurb on the second page to apprehend that not even one copy editor spent more than five minutes on this nearly incomprehensible manuscript. This code may be perfectly workable, but since none of it is documented it's hard to imagine how it actually functions if you happen to be a newcomer to this language, which one has to assume if you're a reader of this book. I second the motion of "Amazon Customer" who reviewed this book earlier. Don't buy this book. Don't even borrow it from a library. I've read a lot of bad IT books, and I've worked with a lot of otherwise intelligent people in this field who simply can't type a sentence, but at some point the author has to justify how and why he's charging good money for a product that is very close to unusable.
P**I
Good book
Outstanding Product as is described and maintain the standard of knowledge in its nature.
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