Customer Reviews

Combustion Ground Rules

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First of all, congrats for finally getting a book out on Combustion, discreet's amazing motion graphic software. The book covers the surface on many of the software's features. I ordered this for my class's textbook for supplimental lessons at home. However, the tutorials are filled with many typos that would only be caught by people that would know what they are doing and easily found confusing for beginners. The typos have stopped my class in their tracks at home trying to decypher what the next possible step could be, as the book keeps misleading them with incorrect instruction. There are video tutorials of the book's projects on the accompanying cd that demystify the errors but I feel they should've got the printed instructions correct as well. Good book, just watch your step.

I ordered this book as a primary text for an intro c*3 class, and I am dissappointed at the large number of typos and poor explanations of steps and procedures. There are many places where in a given tutorial, the instructions do not match to what is required; this left my students forced to guess on how to proceed.
I understand and appreciate the publisher trying to be the first to market, but jeez... have someone actually go thru the exercises with the book at hand! Assuming that all is well has cost my students lots of wasted effort.

I just started going through the book I haven't obviously been all the way through it yet. but I am already learning more about combustion than I knew before . so, so far so good. I think the book breaks things down pretty good to get a good understanding from what I have read so far. I would recommend it to someone who is new to it and would like to experience what combustion can do.

There are better books on Combustion, but if you can get a used version with the CD for less than $5.00 do it. It does have some good examples. The book has been edited poorly and does contain some mistakes. Still one should be able to follow it without to much trouble.