Great book! What's the problem?
585740
To all of you offended Christians. Seriously, relax. These are real stories from your real bible, there just happens to be pictures of Lego people reenacting them. If you are offended by the pictures, maybe you should be offended by the stories they are depicting. Your bible is filled with some disgusting stuff. Blame the men who wrote it thousands of years ago instead of pointing the finger at the author. (Amazon rejected my post several times before I fixed it just by simply mentioning what those men were like. "profane" sounds about right. Absolutely hilarious by the way) Great book!
855621
I'm returning my copy for this reason- it's a pain to go through a brand new book (for this kind of money) and make all of the edits that the author has listed in his errata.  Furthermore- there are more errors than what he has listed in the errata- so how do I know what is right and what is wrong in the text I am studying?  I find it puzzling why some rate this book so high (without specifics)while others rate it low (with very specific reasons). In fact- so many of these high reviews sound the same to me that it makes me wonder who is writing these reviews- the publisher in an attempt to sell books?
4699814
Great book. Awesome series! However, I never give 5 stars because I see errors....But personally, I believe that's just me being me. Feel free to hit me up if you're wondering what they are.
3281293
...then why is it out of print? I have been looking for this book for a long time. It only appears at used book stores or on ebay at high prices. If it is so great, why is it so hard to find?
997405
This book has the potential to be really great if some of the problems are fixed in subsequent edition. The problem is that the book has several errors that will be very confusing for beginners. One of these errors early on is in the SQL statements to create tables; some of information is obviously accidentally repeated and it causes an error when you run the query.  Now if you've never written SQL before how are you going to identify what the error is? Another example of a glaring error is one of the test questions. Don't get me wrong book is great because it has questions that test your knowledge of what you have just learned, however in one chapter on nested queries the answer required is something the author did not teach! The answer required a nested query in the SELECT statement however only nested queries in the WHERE and FROM clauses were taught which is a big omission in and of itself. Other than these problems it is a great book, but I wanted to share my experience so that any other new programmers can judge for themselves whether it is worth the hassle. When I read this book I had previous SQL experience but just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything I was missing anything, but a true newb might struggle here. Hopefully Martin Holzke will have these errors fixed.
4110723
Thanks Dan for a book cram packed with ideas! As I read them I was thinking, yup there's a number that I could offer within my skill set. Not sure what happened at the end of your ebook ... It looked like some of the text was missing in the last few tips?
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Survey Issue- When taking the survey at the back of the book be sure to type the password with the CAPS LOCK on. It is also a little tricky finding the survey, be sure to use [...] [...].  Good luck, the survey is worth the work.

Other than the issues with teh survey I found th book to be a fast and useful read.
939892
Great book ! However, I thought this edition would have corrected some of the errors that have been pointed out to the author,
2048692
Problem 43 has a misprint that could cause a lot of frustration.  It gives the mediant (without calling it by name, making it hard to figure out what's wrong by Googling) as (a+b)/(c+d).  It should be (a+c)/(b+d). If you try plugging in some test numbers, you'll see what I mean. This book is fun and interesting, so this shouldn't dissuade anyone. There will be typos and small errors in any book if you study it closely enough.
1639120
Good Book, poor design.

I like it, but just as some other reviews have mentioned, it really does not fit well on a music stand. This forces me either to bend the spine of the book badly, or try to juggle resting my elbow on it while playing which is a bad idea.

However, the book is quiet good and there are a lot of songs in it! I would totally recommend it to a friend. It is also one of the better "pop/rock" books on the market due to the fact that it has so many tunes and a great assortment/diversity of them.

P.S. I have been using it for over a year now and have not even close to mastered 1/10th of the tunes!
4516879
If there's anything good about a disiplinarian TB institution in the 30s (not 40s), it's the opportunity to meet so many different kinds of people. Macdonald is an observer and nailer of people's quirks on a level with Dickens (both of them, Charles and Monica). I love this book. There's one thing I would like explained, though. American readers talk as if Macdonald's "racism" was an understood and obvious thing. I see no racism in this book. OK, she calls somebody "coloured" and another girl "black". She also mentions that her roommate is Japanese and her workmate an Eskimo. Is she racist for not using today's PC terminology? She praises the institution for accepting everybody and mixing them together. She quotes some racist comments from other patients, but doesn't say she condones them, in fact "Betty" in the book answers back and disagrees. Please, please, somebody tell me why it is currently PC to say Macdonald is racist?
3796434
I would love to buy this book in the Kindle version, but there seems to be some tech problem with that version.  There is a note that the Kindle Version is "under review" and that the publisher is working to fix the problem, but the note has been up for almost a year now, and nothing happens.  I got in touch with the publisher and the author, and at first they got back to me and promised to look into it, but nothing happened.  I tried again a couple of months later and they didn't respond.  Amazon:  If there is no movement on this issue, you should stop listing the product.
2435654
I really like this book so far. I've worked through the first two chapters and skimmed the rest. The first chapter tutorial was great because it showed how to link two screens in a story board and navigate between them easily with drag and drop buttons. This is the kind of thing I want to see first when learning  to use an IDE like Xcode. I have one big gripe with the book; so it gets four stars instead of five. Take it from a hardened old Unix/Linux guy. Using SPACES IN A binary NAME is a BAD IDEA. When I tried to run "sample 2" from my Xcode 4.5.2 setup it could not find the binary product to run. I checked the path and it was there all right. As every junior programmer I've worked with likes to say "It worked on my machine." I'm sure it did for them but using spaces in the path was still asking for trouble. After some research in the Xcode doc I figured out how to rename the whole project. The "sampletwo" binary was found and ran just fine. I hope this is a lesson learned for the author.

I have one last positive comment. The formatting of this item into an e-book looks great on my Kindle-for-PC reader. Some of of the other technical e-books I have don't look as good as this one.
4285737
Great book!  Wonderful story!  Needs better editing.
3728736
I have this book at home. I've had it since xmas 2006. Problem is, some of the pages are falling out. Is it just me, or was the book not put together properly? Perhaps a hard cover might more effectively keep the pages together.
1712562
Great book. Very entertaining. But I did run across a problem. I recently purchased a Chromebook and have been extremely pleased with the way it works and what I'm able to do with it.  Trying to read this book via the Kindle Cloud Reader ( the Kindle app which is required for the Chromebook ), it returns a message indicating that "Kindle Cloud Reader can't open this book". I thought possibly I could download it and read it offline but that also doesn't work. I chatted with one of the Kindle support folks ( very helpful and quick to answer my questions ). Her response to my report of this "problem" was that the author didn't allow the cloud reader access to this book.  That really sounds like it's not the right answer but who knows.  In any event , unless someone comes up with a different answer, apparently the cloud reader can't be used to access this particular book; I say "this particular book" because I can access some of Stephen King's other books ( The Shining ).
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How did you get this book?  I tried to get it and it say's currently unavailable. I see people have read the book to review it.  If someone could help me that would be great.  Thank you.