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Title: Disapponting and Sloppy
Review: I was attracted to this book because of prior good experiences with the OReilly series. What I expected was lean, mean, structured, complete, and accurate. What I got was light, fat, unstructured, incomplete, and sloppy.An example paragraph:"Classes and their instances (objects) do not exist in a vacuum but rather in a network of interdependencies and relationships, just as we, as social animals, live in a world of relationships and categories"If it was just a few bad paragraphs of socio-biology, it would not matter. However the technical content of the book is written in the same sloppy fashion. Summaries are missing, important details are relegated to "oh - by the way's" hidden many pages after the topic.' Concepts are presented in random fashion. A little salt here, some pepper over there.Instead of careful construction, what you have is "stream of conciousness" technical writing. Leave this to James Joyce. It has no place in a book on programming.
