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Title: Operating Systems (3rd Edition) by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, David R. Choffnes ISBN: 0-13-182827-4 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 12 December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $103.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. TERRIBLE!
Comment: This is simply an awful book. The content is terrible and the design is worse. There are much better books available in this market with clear explanation, appropriate selection of topics, and from authors that actually work with OSs (the real author on this, Choffnes, doesn't semm to have any experience with OSs - research, practical or otherwise). This is not the way to learn this important topic. You would be much better off with the Silberschatz book, which I learned from and have taught from. Even Tannenbaum is a much better choice. Stay clear.
Rating: 3
Summary: Ugly, Ugly, Ugly...
Comment: For some unknown reason, the publisher chose to set the table of contents, all the chapter headings, and all the section headings of this book in a cutesy cursive typeface -- in brown ink, no less. (If you squint, it looks a little like Tolkein's "elvish" writing.) This makes it very hard to find topics in the book. It even makes browsing the table of contents painful.
TO THE PUBLISHER: This is a reference book. It is NOT a novel. It should have been designed to make it easy to find things by browsing. It seems to be another case of modern textbooks favoring style over substance. Shame on you.
TO THE AUTHORS: Find another book designer for the next edition. As technical authors, your responsibility to your readers is to communicate information -- NOT to impress people with how cute your book looks.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best of learning operating systems theory
Comment: If your not an expert in computer science, or even if you are just a beginner, you'll find this book quite useful no matter the operating system you work with. This is also an entertaining book, since it can be read from the beginning to the end the same way you could do it with an exciting novel.
Concepts are explained very clearly and, if you'd like to go deeper in any topic, there's an extensive bibliography for every chapter. The document's structure is the same along the book, beginning with introductory text, an ending with a summary of concepts.
Don't be afraid if you're not a brilliant hacker. This book explains everything in such a friendly way, that it makes operating systems theory appear easier than other operating systems books do. Everybody can learn from it!
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Title: Modern Operating Systems (2nd Edition) by Andrew Tanenbaum ISBN: 0130313580 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 28 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $100.00 |
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Title: Internet & World Wide Web How to Program (3rd Edition) by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, Andrew B. Goldberg ISBN: 0131450913 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 24 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $88.00 |
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Title: Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter Baer Galvin ISBN: 0471250600 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 08 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $95.95 |
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Title: Simply Java Programming: An Application-Driven Tutorial Approach by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, Deitel, Associates ISBN: 0131426486 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 06 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet by James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross, James Kurose, Keith Ross ISBN: 0201976994 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 17 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $100.00 |
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