Underwhelming

Like many programming authors with not much to say, Knudsen pads his book with entire programs. Better books elide out all but the relevant fragments, but poor books include the whole program to flesh out their page count. This is really a 100-page book in disguise.

To give you an idea of what level the author is targetting, on page 155 he helpfully explains, "You are probably familiar with the try-catch blocks... The finally clause is not as well known, but it is very useful."

If you already know what a finally clause is, you probably won't be well-served by this book. If you don't, then please buy my copy: I won't be needing it.

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