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Title: Don't use this book to teach your CS class
Review: Regrettably I selected this book for my class. At first look, I thought it was concise and I liked that it seemed to get right down to details. But three weeks in, I groan every time I sit down to read a chapter ahead of my students. The example code was very clearly written in a word processor and never once ever compiled. The examples are riddled with code that doesn't compile. On page 74, there is a for loop using commas instead of semicolons. On page 75, they use the keyword "not" instead of a bang. That's how often errors occur. Think how many hours my students will waste as they can't figure out why examples from the book just don't work on their own computers. The appendix of java specifics is very incomplete and contains errors. The book even has a plot of the growth of functions (page 19) and the authors placed log n above n. The problems go on and on. What a piece of garbage.
