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Summary: Excellent!
Review: An excellent rebuttle to the age old claim that object oriented methodologies have no place in scientific computing. The text is throrough and well-written, without wasting massive amounts of space on code (ala many of the books released in the past two years). While this text may be better suited for an academic environment, anyone involved in mathematical computation can benefit from this text.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: An excellent rebuttle to the age old claim that object oriented methodologies have no place in scientific computing. The text is throrough and well-written, without wasting massive amounts of space on code (ala many of the books released in the past two years). While this text may be better suited for an academic environment, anyone involved in mathematical computation can benefit from this text.
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Summary: Oh man, is this book neat!
Review: Dr. Besset has written an uncommonly great book where he has given us important tools while teaching object-oriented analysis and design. Having both Smalltalk and Java code included is a gift. As a smalltalker, I greatly appreciate the inclusion of the Smalltalk code. The book is well organized, very readable and provides the basis for individuals to extend the classes provides as well as build applications with the included code. The code also provides solid examples of object-oriented programming style that will aid the newer programmers in developing effective use of both Java and Smalltalk.
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Summary: Oh man, is this book neat!
Review: Dr. Besset has written an uncommonly great book where he has given us important tools while teaching object-oriented analysis and design. Having both Smalltalk and Java code included is a gift. As a smalltalker, I greatly appreciate the inclusion of the Smalltalk code. The book is well organized, very readable and provides the basis for individuals to extend the classes provides as well as build applications with the included code. The code also provides solid examples of object-oriented programming style that will aid the newer programmers in developing effective use of both Java and Smalltalk.
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Summary: Reconciling Numerical Methods and Object-Orientation
Review: I really enjoyed this book because it shows that a high level language such as Smalltalk can efficiently model a complex domain like numerical methods. Besset presents a conceptual framework where the concepts are extended and reused, showing the power of OO programming. I also liked the structure of examples followed by a formal foundation, implementation, and implementation discussion.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: The author is clearly very familiar with the theory and practice of numerical computations in OO languages. For me, the main contributions of the book are an expert formulation of some of the basic numerical techniques and concepts in OO terms (a subject rarely approached in the numerous existing books on OO technology), and examples that can be followed to implement other NM techniques and concepts.The inclusion of very readable Smalltalk and Java source code is very useful. For use in a course, I would like to see the material complemented by exercises.
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Summary: valuable
Review: this is an extremely useful book. loaded with lots of efficient, accurate, easy to understand code. this is the most user-friendly book on numerical algorithms that i have found.
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