Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Poor writer and worse programmer

I agree with the other reviews that this book was largely content-free. The author spends way too much time discussing basics of the RTS genre from a players standpoint and is WAY too opinionated in his writing. The opinions he voices seem to have come from a very narrow experience. In addition to the code being full of bugs, he has specific problems like he says you should use a "Booch diagram" to illustrate the design (that's not the name of the diagram, BTW). The diagram he draws uses the Booch notation, but he uses classes and draws lines between them to indicate functional flow. It's an old-fashioned data-flow diagram--and its not even clear what the flow is. Add this to all the other problems of poorly documented code, nearly empty CD, no real running examples, and blatent padding (you can read about them in other reviews), and this is a real dog.