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Title: Don't plan on being up and running very quickly
Review: Even as a professional software engineer, I found this book poorly organized and terribly written with numerous forgettable tangents on the history of EPOC, lousy application implementation guidance (even if you can get the examples to work), and a structure that assumes that you are reading the book front to back (remember - this is over 1000 pages). So, get ready for a few nights burning the midnight oil. The installation CD is truly a hacked together job. And don't plan on using the book as a reference for any EPOC Java work - it treats Java implementations as a minor afterthought. I hope the authors produced better documentation for their solutions than they did for this book. Save your hard-earned money.
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