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Title: Nice try but sloppily tech edited
Review: I really wanted to like this book mainly because there has been nothing like it for Delphi. The algorithms hare handled competently enough and the breadth is all one could ask for in an introductory book. The code however is pretty bad. It shows that Mr Stephens converted it from Visual Basic and that he doesn't have enough Delphi knowledge (eg using / instead of div, integers are NOT 2 bytes). It isn't Ready-To-Run by any stretch of the imagination. There are some annoying lapses in the text as well (a nice chapter on hash tables but nothing about hash functions?). As far as I can tell no tech editing was done and it shows. Nice try.
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