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The one that says: "And all the samples are copyright and you can't use them in your own program."
(A couple of 2D and 3D WPF Graphics books by the same author)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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My least favorite programming book is
Learn C++ in X days, where even after 21 days, classes were very briefly told, and pointers were not mentioned. This was sometime in 1994 / 1995. Not sure what number X was.
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the dragon book. it is a good book, but hard to finish all pages...
diligent hands rule....
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I never read any of his book but there are quite a handful on Amazon with relative good reviews for each.
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I've never read any book on C++ that made a bit of sense, but the worst ever was the Microsoft MFC manual - all three volumes of it. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Open the Pod bay doors please, HAL ...
modified 27-Oct-20 13:52pm.
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RedDk wrote: Open the Pod bay doors please, HAL ...
Years ago, I read a book which I believe was called "VAX/VMS Internals". Each chapter started with a quote. This was the quote for the chapter on device drivers.
Note: This wasn't my least favorite programming book, I actually enjoyed reading it.
modified 12-Nov-20 9:47am.
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Reference, yes ... I had this interesting C/C++ book called "Jamsa's C/C++ Programmer's Bible" (The Ultimate Guide to C/C++ Programming) ... "Klander&Jamsa" as the professor says when he want's you do some reading ... the only problem was that it is apparently a computer compilation of some sort where the organization of text of the 2"-thick hardcopy is laced with graphic inclusions like flags and icon representations; all the printed pages have background graphic image banners (of god-knows what origin symbolically). Ultimately, while making simple distinctions between C and C++ ... this was 1998 mind you ... comprehensible, the repeated jargonization of the "message" lead the reader into quickly abandoning it's use except for repeated lookup of terms.
It became for me hardcopy where I'd go to find something in short explanation when Barne became too convoluted to understand or his examples, like his calculator, seemed too broad in scope. Like the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 volume (6x) only condensed into the one doorstop.
Obviously written by a HAL 9000 ...
[o]
modified 28-Oct-20 14:36pm.
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In addition to Stroustrup's C++ reference I'd also go with K&R C Programming language as a 100% useless book.
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Why ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I loved both of those at the time, but that was very long ago. K&R was my intro to C in about 1985/6 and Stroustrup followed as soon as I could get hold of it, having started C++ in 1986 with the Glockenspiel C++ translator (Cfront 1.1).
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Couldn't disagree more. But then, I learned C with K&R's ANSI edition in 1990, did every exercise in the book, came out with excellent grasp of C. Maybe you came to the game later than that, when K&R really wouldn't apply anymore. But I thought it was good.
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Are you talking about Stroustrup's 'The C++ Programming Language'? If so, our opinions are vastly different. It was one of the most useful books I ever bought.
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Programmers at work by Susan Lammers (I've read the Spanish version) "Programadores en accción" a long time ago.
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That would be the driest book on my list, but the worst would be any of the dozens of "Learning C++" books that describe just enough to validate the title. SQL in 2 hours, etc.
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any book that has JavaScript in the title, but inside is full with jQuery + HTML + CSS
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Those PhD/Scientist people tend to write in vague terms in the passive voice. So you need to do a lot of reading to get to the point. Compare that book with K&R's C book.
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Voyager - the lame atrocity in the Star Trek family, or, as they put it in essentially every episode, "An Anomaly".
Captain Mommy and an assortment of other ludicrous characters are a dark spot on the series.
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You must've missed everything that came after the "reboot" back in 2009.
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There was a reboot, of sorts, with the original Star Trek - I watched it and it was quite good (almost all the episodes = about a dozen of 'em).
It was an all-new crew with a very heavy constraint of trying to really duplicate the entire atmosphere of the original series. They must have had some success as I stopped paying attention to the not-familiar faces and instead, to the story.
And, oh yes, those excellent uniforms for the female crew were brought back - I always wondered how the male crew members every got anything done (when on duty).
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This one?
Star Trek Continues - YouTube[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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"Star Trek Continues" was so good that the lawyers stepped in and said they had to stop, they were better than the "Discovery" and showing it up to as the pile of carp it was.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yup. That's the one.
Funny thing. Although they had amazing capabilities compared to what we have, their "tech" is actually sort of primitive looking. Seeing it all reproduced in detail really brought the point home.
At least from my point of view, although the latter shows (Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise) had better production, the original Star Trek is the one that stimulated the magnification about a wonderful future. After all, at least whilst watching, were transporters and phasers real ? That captured imagination allowed the existence of the others.
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Have a fancy dress event with theme of JEDI... Inter galactic...
Have anyone tried or have a quick pointer on DIY Jedi look?
Don't have robe or want to cut/sew a costume. Something simpler.
What about hair style (Male)?
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