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Summary: Too many mistakes
Review: Let me begin by saying that I am taking QBasic in order to satisfy a course requirement. I am not going to become a computer programmer or a rocket scientist for NASA; I am getting my certificate in computer programming and computer applications so that I can become a more proficient PC user. I do enjoy problem-solving, I do like a challenge and I have certainly learned a lot from my course. Much of the time this book has been helpful, particularly in the way it gradually tests basic skills by providing more and more complex problems at the end of each chapter. Usually, after I finish my homework and programming problems, I have a pretty good understanding of the chapter's material.My complaint is that this book is riddled with typos, as well as incorrect input and output data for some of the programming problems. To make matters worse, while my edition of the book may have inaccurate data, other students' editions may have the correct data for the same problem, yet in the next assignment, my book may be correct, while the data in another student's book is incorrect. At one point, after spending hours struggling and reviewing a programming problem, I came into class, checked the book of another student, and found that the data the book was asking me to put into my program was incorrect. What a waste of my time (not to mention all the time I berated myself for even taking this course)! On another occasion, in order to solve a more advanced problem, the book instructed us to use the same input data from a problem we had solved in an earlier chapter. I entered my data, ran the program and got the same output that I had gotten when I had run the program using the old method, weeks before. This is what should have happened, but when I looked at the output screen printed in the book, I saw a completey different set of data. Of course, if you use the same data, you should come out with the same answer! Duh. The output screen printed in my edition was incorrect. For another practice program, the book asked you to refer back to a particular page and input the data on that page. The page was a blank one. And we are only half way through the book! Computer programming is difficult for me. I am a novice. I need accurate information to put into my sample programs and I want the satisfaction of seeing that my answer compares favorably with the book's answer. I need to feel that I can trust the accuracy of what is printed in my textbook. Why should different printing runs have different inaccuracies and why so many of them? Why are some students' books correct in the same places that other students' books are inaccurate for some problems, while the reverse is true for other problems? Why, in a course in which many students struggle, must we be further confused by the textbook on which we should be able to rely?
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Summary: Beware of missing pages from Ch.2 of the book
Review: Please check to see that you got all the chapters you paid for. I bought a copy of this book on June 1,99. After two days I realized more than 90% of Chapter 2 is missing. [PLEASE NOTE: I DID NOT BUY THE BOOK FROM AMAZON. I BOUGHT IT FROM MY COLLEGE BOOKSTORE.]When I went back to exchange the book I was told no book is in stock at this time. The promised "next" shipment has not arrived in 10 days. I have my quiz on Ch.2 on Monday, the 14th. You can imagine how much I am going to score on the quiz. I wrote to the publishers, Course.com. They gave me some regular PR garbage. I wrote back to them saying if by any chance they could mail me the chapter overnight. I haven't heard from them in two days. Unfortunately, I am not the only one in my class. There are other people too. GOOD LUCK TO BUYERS OF THIS BOOK.
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Summary: great for beginers,
Review: This book is used at my college a the main textbook for Qbasic. Without this book I would of been lost. My book was completely intact too. The only thing I found wrong with the book is that some of the information is outdated.
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Summary: great for beginers,
Review: This book is used at my college a the main textbook for Qbasic. Without this book I would of been lost. My book was completely intact too. The only thing I found wrong with the book is that some of the information is outdated.
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