Not worth for advanced
342947
Not much music in it and this is for kids i felt like...
2923095
This book is not helpful unless you already have a strong CS background and merely need a refresher. I would recommend the free CS for Educators course on EdX instead- from UT Austin. Texas seems to give the same test as GA and they have better prep materials.
843215
Not for me.  I was looking for something a little more advanced with beginner mindset.
This is for a true beginner.
3148860
Not actually that great for an advanced student (physics, materials science, etc). As an undergraduate physics major, I have a hard time following this book in it's descriptions of physical phenomena or principles (eg. the Heisenberg Uncertainty theorem) as the author tries to simplify the explanation for non physics majors, but does not actually know what parts are essential for understanding, and which parts could be left out, resulting in a confusing half explanation. Given how important quantum mechanics is to describing nano-scale materials and devices, I find that this book is severely lacking in the necessary information to even provide an introduction to nanotechnology.
1601417
I ordered this DVD because it sounded like it was for a more advanced exerciser who does many dance workouts, but this is geared for a beginner. It is not at a quick enough pace, with too many explanations that slow your momentum so I couldn't keep my  my heart rate up. I did it once and gave it away.
3804474
I think this book and DVD will only be useful for a beginning or an intermediate player at best.  I bought this book along with two other books -- Guitar Fretboard Workbook and The BEAD Method of Fretboard Mastery -- in an effort to become more familiar with the guitar fretboard.  For many years, I've been stuck at the intermediate level, relying mainly on memorized patterns to get around.  I wanted to break away from that and be able to instantly find and identify notes and intervals anywhere along the fretboard.  Sadly, Fretboard Logic did not help me achieve this goal.

For beginning guitar players, learning about scales and chords can be a daunting task, and I think some of the patterns and abstractions found in this book may be very useful to them.  After all, most beginners don't want to sit down with workbooks or learn how to sight read -- they just want to play some rock songs, and this book can probably help them achieve that quicker.  However, the book becomes far less useful when it goes beyond simple major/minor chords and pentatonic scales.  In fact, the extra level of abstraction starts to make things even MORE complex than they would be without it.  Using fretboard logic, playing in E Phrygian may translate to playing in the G position of the C major scale with the root at the 3rd.  It's easier just to memorize the notes on the fretboard and the intervals of the Phrygian scale.  When you get right down to it, fretboard logic is just another position/pattern based method.  I don't really see any added benefit to using the CAGED system, but if anyone can explain it to me, I'm willing to listen.

I got a little more use out of the two other books that I purchased (mentioned above).  The Guitar Fretboard Workbook in particular introduces many of the same insights found here, but does a better job of presenting them.  Instead of the CAGED sequence, it numbers the positions based on the root notes.  While this may not seem to like a big difference, I found that identifying positions by numbers is far less confusing than identifying them by their open chord shapes.

I want to add that I bought this book and DVD (verified purchase) after reading many glowing reviews, and I was disappointed to find that the book had nothing new to teach me.  I believe my disappointment stems mainly from a misunderstanding of the book's intent.  Fretboard Logic IS NOT a fretboard trainer.  It doesn't even explain "the reasoning behind the guitar's unique tuning".  Rather, its real intent is to give new guitarists a gentle introduction to chords and scales, and provide them with some simple tools to apply that knowledge.  Therefore, if you already have a basic knowledge of music theory and you are relatively comfortable with pentatonic and diatonic scales, you will not find much use out of this book.  I think the book can be okay for beginners, especially for those who are "visual learners".  However, there are plenty of books/DVDs out there that are as good or better.

For guitarists who are looking for a freboard trainer type book, both the Guitar Fretboard Workbook and the BEAD book were okay, but I think you're better off simply learning how to sight read and working through a book like "A Modern Method for Guitar".
4662559
I can't really say that this book is "bad", although I can say that I did not find it at all useful so I returned it. This book falls under the category of a "project oriented how-to" style book as opposed to a "reference" style book (see my review of "Foundation Flash 5"). If you are a total beginner and are looking for a book to hold your hand while you learn new concepts, this book does that. You work on little "projects" that demonstrate different techniques and tools. The title of the book is a big exaggeration (you could also say blatant lie), as almost everything here is basic.
The problem is if you are not a beginner. This is NOT a reference or advanced book. If you have a question (about something simple) and need the answer to it, you can't just look it up in the index and turn to the page. You will find yourself on step 26 (or whatever) of a larger project that you'd have to trace back to the beginning and follow up until that point. Sometimes this isn't a big deal as nothing here gets TOO complex, but I found it frustrating how brief some explanations were and always closed the book and looked up the problem in one of the many other excellent reference books ("Flash 5 Bible", "Flash 5 Visual Quickstart" [1st & Advanced editions]). The ActionScript section is particularly light and glosses over many concepts without REALLY explaining them. You really don't venture too far from the "Basic" actions.
Again, to learn from point "A", this book has it's merit (although I personally liked "Foundation Flash 5" better). The price certainly is right. You couldn't really LEARN the program from scratch by reading the "Flash 5 Bible" or any other "reference" book. You would probably want a project oriented "how-to". I didn't like this one. And for what it's worth, the picture on the cover of the annoying clean-cut boy with the lipstick irritated me to no end as it is also the 1st page of every chapter. Puleese! Isn't Flash about graphics? Add a half star if cornyness doesn't bother you.
724035
I have found this a between bad and reasonable good book.

I have already a few years actionscript-experience and was looking for a book that could help me in the "whats new departement". Actually it has helped me to find out what is new in AS2.0 however the book is to slow for me (and I haven't done the actual lessons, I have only read it) What I mean is that when you have some actionscript experience I think you are better off buying another more advanced book (like object-oriented Actionscript) that helps in the "whats new departement" while you reading it without loosing time on endless explanations of things that speak for itself.

In this book there is one chapter on Object-oriented-programming (which by the way I found to be interesting). So again if you feel up to moving your programming to OOP than don't buy this book.

If you have no or very little experience with AS : buy it, its written for you!
730711
I don't recommend this book for beginners of JavaScript.  Once you get to the exercises to put the content into practice, the instructions are vague and unclear, and the website they recommend you use for support and supplemental materials is now down, which they blame on Microsoft not offering support.  So they couldn't get another web host or keep what content used to be on their site available to students?  Just to do my homework, I have to spend hours researching other sites that can explain concepts better.  I have to wonder why of all the JavaScript books available my school decided to go with this one.
1424189
This book is for advanced followup.  Was part of a course, teacher had to use another book as this book is too technically written.
Otherwise, great book for advance work
910253
Too advanced for a beginner.  May be good for a more advanced player, but not for a "newbie".  Concentrates on teaching note and notation, more than the tabulation system.
1772892
This book is too basic for advanced musicians and it is more of a songbook than for piano sheet music.  The music was simplified versions of the songs, so the book was returned.
766031
Just not what I had hoped. Pretty advanced. Not for beginners.  Maybe I'll enjoy it later in down the road when I'm better at italian
2720691
Not very accessible for new or intermediate practionerd.  Too obscure for me.
3071895
Overall this is not a bad book for learning to use Photoshop CS6. I agree with others, however, that it is too advanced for a complete beginner. It includes terms that are not clearly defined that require at least a basic knowledge of Photoshop to understand. For the beginner I would recommend&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Adobe-Photoshop-CS6-Classroom-in-a-Book/dp/0321827333/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book</a>&nbsp;and then after completing that moving on to this Dummies book.
1610636
I just got this from Amazon today. I am quite disappointed with this book. It is very elementary. I would not call it "intermediate" by any stretch of the imagination. I was hoping for something more challenging.
3385651
This was not written for "real" dummies. It is for people with some kmowlege. It is worthless for a lower than a rank amateur dummy.