Pattern Recognition with Neural Networks in C++

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Summary: A good experimental book for neural networks
Review: This book comes with C++ source code, and thus provides a nice place to begin for someone who is interested in experimenting with neural nets. The author's focus on the character-recognition problem, so the book is somewhat specialized from this perspective. I would not recommed this book to someone who is primarily interested in a strong theoretical book describing learning with neural nets.

Rating:
Summary: A good experimental book for neural networks
Review: This book comes with C++ source code, and thus provides a nice place to begin for someone who is interested in experimenting with neural nets. The author's focus on the character-recognition problem, so the book is somewhat specialized from this perspective. I would not recommed this book to someone who is primarily interested in a strong theoretical book describing learning with neural nets.

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Summary: A good NN book for exam preparation
Review: This book explains the concepts in clear simple language and shows you the source code in C++, class diagrams (unique), and how the algorithms work with flow charts (unique). Often, each chapter contains step-by-step examples of how these algorithms work on some simple input vectors - exactly what I need for exam preparation.