Title: Makes you want to correct it and send it back
Product review: I have only read half of Chapter 1 and all of the thread synchronization and COM chapters, but that's already more time than I should have invested in this book. I have to say that I've never read a computer book that was so poorly written. It's just plain sloppy - like a rough draft or something.I could tell from its description that it was a book for beginners, but I bought it anyways because the table of contents seemed to cover what I'm interested in and because I thought a beginner's book would be a smooth read. I've already discounted the "smooth read" prediction. I can also say that the coverage thus far has been too superficial to help me do anything significantly beyond the examples in the book.My advice: stick with Boling's book on CE programming.
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