A Programmer’s Guide to Computer Science Vol. 2: A virtual degree for the self-taught developer
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Price: $19.99 - $18.99 (as of Aug 10, 2024 15:13:11 UTC – Details)
By: William M. Springer II (Author)
You know how to code… …but is it enough?
Do you…
Reviews
Tyler A. Layne –
Exactly what I was looking for!!
This book and Part 1 of the series is a must-have for me! Nice little 185 page books. I ready the short chapter, research online, and dust off my Disrete Mathematics textbooks and its taking me from being just a bonehead mathematician/statistician to someone knowledgeble on just about every concept and vocabulary word essential to working in a related field. The title of the book sums it up perfectly. Highly recommended!
Mohammed Q. Hussian –
Great as Introduction and Refresher
I really enjoyed reading this book and found it really useful as a refresher for topics I already know and as a quick and useful introduction to topics that I didn’t know well. This second volume examines topics beyond the basics of computer science with some advanced topics on Data Structures, Algorithm Complexity and others.
Thomas C Swanson –
Great book for beginners
I received it on time and as described. It is a great book for beginners and I even learned a couple of things after 45+ years in the profession. It’s a little difficult read on a Kindle though.
Amazon Customer –
Horribly short, massive text, and Wikipedia article summery sized chapters.
This book is not worth $20 for a softcover, and i can’t even justify $10 kindle version.[edit: Book changed prices, was $25.]The amount of info in this book is ridiculously surface level and thin. You’re better off looking at the table of contents, and search it up on Wikipedia. You’ll get the same amount of value out of that.125 pages, each page holding grade school entry-level reading sized font. Along with 1 inch margins, huge and frequent chapter titles with large spacing above and below the text. The area of text is roughly the size of a large smart phone.To be quite honest, it feels like the author had 40 pages worth of very very surface level info about general computer science and tried to make it look like it is worth $25.for example:The chapter on AI is 6 pages long. The chapter feels like a vocab study guide. 1 of the 6 pages is just a comic style picture of a robot thinking. The amount of text that is in a chapter, could fit into a single page in “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”.The networking & internet chapter breaks down the bare minimum to describe the internet. After reading that chapter, you still wouldn’t know how to create, modify, or even interact with any network. It’s so thin, it might as well be a course description. or what you’d read on the back of a book.I feel like i was told this book would be a nice reference book, but what i got was the quick answers from google search on paper.
Amazon Customer –
Topics are important, but content is extremely superficial
Just look at the table of contents, it’s free using the “Look inside” on Amazon. Then research any resource about those topics.A list of topics to research is the value this book delivers. The content is extremely superficial. If you have a couple of years experience as a professional software developer, you’re unlikely to learn anything from this book.
Tyler A. Layne –
Exactly what I was looking for!!
This book and Part 1 of the series is a must-have for me! Nice little 185 page books. I ready the short chapter, research online, and dust off my Disrete Mathematics textbooks and its taking me from being just a bonehead mathematician/statistician to someone knowledgeble on just about every concept and vocabulary word essential to working in a related field. The title of the book sums it up perfectly. Highly recommended!
Mohammed Q. Hussian –
Great as Introduction and Refresher
I really enjoyed reading this book and found it really useful as a refresher for topics I already know and as a quick and useful introduction to topics that I didn’t know well. This second volume examines topics beyond the basics of computer science with some advanced topics on Data Structures, Algorithm Complexity and others.
Thomas C Swanson –
Great book for beginners
I received it on time and as described. It is a great book for beginners and I even learned a couple of things after 45+ years in the profession. It’s a little difficult read on a Kindle though.
Amazon Customer –
Horribly short, massive text, and Wikipedia article summery sized chapters.
This book is not worth $20 for a softcover, and i can’t even justify $10 kindle version.[edit: Book changed prices, was $25.]The amount of info in this book is ridiculously surface level and thin. You’re better off looking at the table of contents, and search it up on Wikipedia. You’ll get the same amount of value out of that.125 pages, each page holding grade school entry-level reading sized font. Along with 1 inch margins, huge and frequent chapter titles with large spacing above and below the text. The area of text is roughly the size of a large smart phone.To be quite honest, it feels like the author had 40 pages worth of very very surface level info about general computer science and tried to make it look like it is worth $25.for example:The chapter on AI is 6 pages long. The chapter feels like a vocab study guide. 1 of the 6 pages is just a comic style picture of a robot thinking. The amount of text that is in a chapter, could fit into a single page in “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”.The networking & internet chapter breaks down the bare minimum to describe the internet. After reading that chapter, you still wouldn’t know how to create, modify, or even interact with any network. It’s so thin, it might as well be a course description. or what you’d read on the back of a book.I feel like i was told this book would be a nice reference book, but what i got was the quick answers from google search on paper.
Amazon Customer –
Topics are important, but content is extremely superficial
Just look at the table of contents, it’s free using the “Look inside” on Amazon. Then research any resource about those topics.A list of topics to research is the value this book delivers. The content is extremely superficial. If you have a couple of years experience as a professional software developer, you’re unlikely to learn anything from this book.