Good Reference but don't follow the examples

This book can be used as a good reference but it does not serve the basic purpose.
This book is an introductory level book so assumption is that most of the readers will be new to Symbian Programming. There is notion in the industry that Symbian is a bit tough to follow, particularly to .NET and Java programmers. One of the main reason for that is Poor documenetation from Symbian. So only reference to learn Symbian is books like these and most of them serves the purpose.

The examples used by the author are very complicated, not because of the rules of programming for symbian but because of the examples chosen by the Author. Here are some eg classes and objects
RHerculesSession::CaptureCeryneianHind
RHerculesSession::CleanAugeanStables
RHerculesSession::SlayStympalianBirds
If we can imagie how a program works, then it will be easy to implement( that is the reason why Dietel & Dietel became so famous). If I am a Mathematecian and if I am writing a book on programming doesn't mean the Class examples should be the calculations of most complex equations in Mathematics.

Apart from the examples its a good reference book.

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