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Teach Yourself Corba in 14 Days Review by Stuart Thomson
Do you want the Good News, or the Bad News ?
A very frustrating book, because I actually want to like it, but can't. In many ways, it's actually quite a good introductory text, the explanations are mostly clear, and it's fairly well paced.
BUT
The editorial staff as SAMS need a good spanking!
-------------------------------------------------The book is strewn with errors and typos, and I'm not just talking about spelling errors here (although there are many)
A few examples:
1.; The class diagrams in chapter 5 are simply empty boxes with lines connecting them, somewhere along the way, the text in the boxes got lost. It's impossible to follow the example without the diagrams.
2. Each chapter has Quiz questions, and answers are found in an appendix. Problem is, some of the answers are to different questions! It appears that at some stage the questions got changed, and the answers weren't updated.
3. In the discussion of strings, the sample code that purports to show how to declare a fixed-length string, actually declares an array of variable length strings.
In spite of my annoyance at this kind of error, I've given the book 2 stars, because there's a lot to like about other aspects of the book. If they come out with a second edition which fixes the errors, it would be well worth buying.