Title: A book composed mainly of old paper thoughts
Product review: This book is one of the worst I have ever encountered in my seven-year CompE & CS academic history or in my six-year "real world" experience.Most importantly, its first copyright date is 1990, and I don't think it had modern ideas then. Yet, in the fast-moving world of computers, he has neglected much networking, any mention of open source software, any mention of bazaar-style development, any depth of databases, thoughts of providing services, recognition of abstraction layers beyond machine code--source code--operating-system, any development of design patterns, and much UML and Java.The code samples and anecdotes provide little insight to issues that modern computer engineers need to deal with. The writing is wordy without being precise or complete. The references are antiquated and unimportant. The questions demand only regurgitation, neither thinking nor reflection.
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