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Title: cheap for a reason
Review: I totally agree with the reviewers who gave this a low rating and wonder what [edit] people must have read to give this five stars.As for the so-called robust, real world examples, take listing 4.3 which:1) reports exceptions to stdout without doing anything else2) comments to "take care of displaying frames so they don't overlap" and then goes ahead and doesn't to that care, because it would be non-trivial to do so.3) doesn't even work. I spent an hour trying to figure why my code wasn't working, untill I compiled the code in the book and discovered it didn't either.As for the appendix, I'm pretty shocked at the waste of paper, as one sentence per method would have made it so good. It's much worse than the "in a nutshell" books, which give a description of the main methods in the opening paragraph. Could have been so much better. Even at this price you're paying way too much.I'm going to be very cautious before I ever buy a "Pure xxx" book again.
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