This book is not useful at all
347442
This book is not useful at all.  It tries to bridge the gap between a young and old earth, to polar opposite views on the beginning of the universe.
3761427
If you were to take the text of this "book," put it in a regular size font, and take out all of the pictures and blank spaces, you would be left with about 10 pages of actual text.  However, what's left would still be written at a third grade reading level with lots of spelling and gramatical errors.  It's not useful or instructional at all, it's clearly just a low-effort, low-quality attempt to earn some easy money.  Pretty much nothing in this "book" is helpful!  Please buy another title like Tristan Taormino's "The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women" or another reputable title instead.
1535742
I read the reviews on this book before buying it and based upon them, purchased it.  It was a mistake.  This book is another example of someone throwing something together at the last minute to sell a book.  I am very  disappointed.  The chapters are laid out with virtually no instruction.  Joseph gives a very convoluted and brief explanation of concepts and then  merely throws some examples at the reader to finish his thoughts.  So much  is left out about the programming language and so little is explained.  The  examples are no help at all.  Maybe the examples would help if he explained  the concepts within them.  Sorry folks, this book is worthless. As a  Software Engineering Specialist for a highly respected software development  firm, I give this book two thumbs down.
1007825
I hate this book.  There is no practical information.  Sure I may have ordered the wrong book but, even as a mythological source, it is still poor in quality. " Magical Uses" are so general and could apply to any situation.  Its like reading your horoscope....they somehow always apply to you, in their totally generalized manner.  I would return it but with the shipping costs as such, I'll trade it.
3147926
Purely theoretical book.  It very very little to C and C++ and the example is of a key board input. Being the book about instrumentation and control this is seems totally off.
This book is USELESS for practical purposes. If I wanted history and theory of pc instrumentation I would have gone to wikipedia.
What a waste of money.
3048692
If there was a way to leave ZERO stars, I would. This book is useless as a reference, poorly edited, and primarily empty space and white pages. I read the entire thing in less than 5 minutes, and I still felt that I had wasted my time by doing so. Author cites ZERO references in this text despite referring casually to "studies". Returned it immediately. Photos show ridiculous amounts of blank space that are typical through this book. The entire text is probably no more than 5 pages if it were 12pt font on an 8.5*11" page.
4071450
I've read the first half of this book twice now (once for a class, once to pass M.S. test).  The book is terrible.  There are virtually no examples to help you learn how to construct a Bayesian network.  I'm serious.  Virtually the only example is actually a homework question at the end of a chapter and the question is wrong!!! (there are dependcies in the table given for the joint distribution, but the acyclic graph shows them as independencies).

This book was written in defense of Bayesian Networks as a "Reasonable" graphical model.  At the time, perhaps it was needed, but today we accept them as useful and move on unless we are trying to model medical diagnosis.  For this reason the book is written with proofs where there should be examples (and perhaps references to an appendix).  Please don't prove to me that Bayesian networks are reasonable, show me how they are useful!

To reiterate, you will learn how to create and use Bayesian networks from somewhere else, even if you buy this book.

Oh, and my FAVORITE example is the Prisoner's Paradox.  He uses this example to show relationships that should be representable in a graphical model.  But the whole point of the paradox is that humans are VERY bad at thinking in this manner.  Though Pearl makes general claims as to the similarity between Bayesian Networks and the way humans think (doctors performing medical diagnosis is not a normal human task!), this  example shows the opposite.  It is called a paradox because it is unintuitive, weakening claims as to the likeness of Bayesian Networks to human thought.
1715173
I have been reading 'dummies' books for years. This book is the least useful book I have ever read. There is nothing in this book on how to actually create a visualization.

The entire book is all about very simple topics, e.g., size and color of fonts, arrow placement, history of data viz, etc. It is almost like the authors know nothing at all about interactive visualizations and were just putting this together because the title is flashy and they would make money.

It is true there are references in the back, but I went through all of these and found them little if at all useful. Probably the only benefit I found in the next book is that I plan to read (Data Visualization book by Tufte).

Sorry authors- I'm sure you worked very hard on this book,  but I just don't see how this book would help a professional in the least..maybe others will find it more useful.
2735421
This book really doesn't contain anything of use.  It is full of links to pages that prompt you to purchase a $30+ book.  Save the $.99 and don't buy this!
1805109
This book is extremely unpractical: things are ridiculously difficult to find, the index is useless andthe format is totally unhelpful. It mixes the actual articles and sections with comments and other things that are not part of the law, and if you open a page, you never know on first sight in what part of the law you are, you have to go back and find some title somewhere. Codes have indexes on the bottom of every page so you know what part you are reading, but this very expensive book has nothing of the sort. If they were going to charge for something that you can easily find for free in the internet, they should've at least put some effort in it... Next time I have to buy a thing like this, I'll just download the law, I will be much better off.
2435293
This book was almost a complete waste of my time.

I did find a few handy page element snippets that I can use for reference, but I already have vastly better reference books/apps for CSS and HTML. I was looking for a fresh perspective and maybe a few new spins, but what I found was that there is no in-depth repository of knowledge in this book.

If you want to learn how to write a web page, from scratch, Do NOT buy this book. This book is only a small collection of handy, incomplete, hints.

And as I stated, there are vastly better reference books out there.

At $2.99, before tax, I feel robbed.

MACJR
447705
I just got this book and took a quick look before I had to go out. In its very skimpy 150 pages, I could find only one paragraph of actual XAML code and no C#/VB code at all.  The first few chapters are about how wonderful the new interface is, but without explaining WHY it is better. "It's better. trust me.".  Skip these chapters completely --  they have no purpose at all. Then, the rest of the book describes a hypothetical application (explained entirely in prose; no XAML, no C#/VB code to be found) , It gets progressively worse until by the end of the book where he;s just putting boiler plate nonsense to increase the page count.  There is absolutely no reason to purchase it,  Ten dollars down the toilet.
3430104
This is the first ever review i have written about a book (and anything in fact). I only gave this a 1 star because there is no 0 star option. This book is a complete waste of money. There is absolutley nothing of value in it, nothing. Nothing of interest for the front office and nothing of interest in c#. Although there's not a whole lot of financial related c# texts out there, almost any other text has to be better than this one. I don't understand how any person could attribute 5-stars unless. Perhaps they are the author's friends. Hence my reasons for tryign to balance the reviews with an accurate assessment.
926889
I've had the book for almost a year . It has been pretty well useless . On some topics , it pitches at the beginner level ; on others it's advanced (but never in adequate detail). It feels 'cobbled together ' . A very poor  substitute for a real technical reference . It reads like a collection of  introductory chapters to other books ! Far better stuff elsewhere . Here's  one sorry shopper . Don't join me on this one please .
3403132
Sorry to say, but this book wasn't very useful at all. So many Kindle authors crank out really lightweight "books" these days, hardly more than a short collection of their stream-of-consciousness thoughts or ideas that come to their mind. This book was one of them.

For example, the main part of the book was on 10 ways to outline your book. You would think it would talk about ways of identifying topics, subtopics, organizing, trimming, and expanding actual outlines -- about outlines. But instead, the 10 ways were use a white board, use post it notes, use various software programs, use pen and paper, etc.  Duh.

Same thing for 3 ways to write your book -- dictate it, type it in blocks of allocated time, or hire a ghostwriter. How useful is that?

I would not recommend this book to anyone. The only thing I can respect about it was that it was priced for free, and only took 5 minutes or so to read.
3854909
This book is as useless as a squirt of duck poop!
4434979
Book makes no sense at all and services no purpose.

Does not help my student.

I wish I could return it.