book-review

Should I not use a Herb Schildt book to learn from?

I was getting on fine reading "C++ From The Ground Up" by Herb Schildt, 3rd edition (2003) finding it explains things a lot clearer than some of the other books available. However it's apparent that many people consider Herb Schildt's books to be full of errors. e.g. see #16 at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C-faq/learn/. Is this right and wou...

How good is "Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review" ?

You've seen the advert (except the original URL has gone AWOL): This is an image for the book from SmartBear (in lieu of the missing advert): Who's requested the book? (I have.) Who's read the book? (I've started.) What are your impressions? (Mine are favourable so far - but I'm not sure whether I'm going to learn anything stun...

Beginning at Computer Vision and Image Processing (Machine Vision, Third Edition: Theory...book review?)

Hi, I am interested in computer vision and image processing (object recognition). However my knowledge about these is equal to 0. I'm trying to find some recommendation about books that I should start with... I found this book really interesting, at least by looking at table of contents and few customer reviews. They all seemed fine, ...

Software to find the most occurring unique words in a file

Hi, I remember once visiting a website that would present a book/novel summary in the most interesting way. It would show a list of words that were repeated most often in that book and which were unique/uncommon. In other words, it would show the maximum frequency words but not common words like the, I, you etc. Then it needs to have th...