Delmar Thomson Learning is proud to welcome Jamsa Press -- a professional/trade/reference imprint with products concentrated in web design, computer repair and computer programming -- to the Delmar family. The Jamsa Press acquisition includes over 15 active titles and will become part of the Onword Press imprint.
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Worldwide, millions of computer users regard Dr. Kris Jamsa as one of the leading experts in the industry. He is the author of over 70 computer books covering a wide range of topics, including DOS, Windows, OS/2, programming languages, graphics, the Internet and the Web. He is known through his books for his ability to make the most difficult concepts simple and understandable. On several occasions he has been asked to speak regarding the most current topics of the computer industry.
In 1983 he earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from the United States Air Force Academy. After graduation he worked as a VAX/VMS system manager for the Air Force, in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the same time, Dr. Jamsa was earning his master's degree in computer science from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In August of 1993, the same year he founded Jamsa Press, Dr. Jamsa received his doctorate in computer science with an emphasis on operating systems from Arizona State University. Continuing to broaden his education, he commuted from Las Vegas every week to San Diego State University, which awarded him an MBA in 1997.
Today, Dr. Jamsa is the Director of Gulf Publishing Company's Book Division in Houston, Texas. He continues to author many Jamsa Press books and commutes regularly to Las Vegas to ensure Jamsa Press books maintain their high-quality content. Dr. Jamsa is currently pursuing a Masters of Science in Financial Planning from the College for Financial Planning in Denver, Colorado. Because of his expertise and experience, computer users worldwide turn to Dr. Jamsa for advice and solutions.
Lars Klander is an experienced computer programmer who has worked with personal computer programming platforms since the introduction of the TRS-80. Lars graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1993 with a B.S. in Political Science after spending 5 years in an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science double degree program. Despite his best efforts to avoid them, computers have remained in his blood and he has spent much of his professional career writing enterprise solutions for various companies. Currently, he is employed by Jamsa Press as Senior Programmer. Lars recently co-authored Jamsa Press the newly released 1001 Visual Basic Programmer's Tips, and is currently working on Jamsa's C/C++ Programmer's Bible. When not writing books or programming, he spends his spare time with his fiancee Brett and his 6 cats and 2 dogs.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent C Resource book but not for beginners,
This review is from: Jamsa's C/C++ Programmer's Bible (Paperback)
This book presents numerous stand-alone topics and code samples that are grouped together in more or less logical chunks: Basic C language stuff, strings, functions, keyboard handling, files, directories, and disk operations, arrays, pointers, structures, DOS/BIOS, memory stuff, date/time. The book also contains a bunch of C++ topics such as the obligatory object/class and inheritance material, templates, exceptions, STL, windows programming topics, and some useful material on processes and threads.The book is not designed to be read through for a comprehensive understanding of any of the logical areas. Hence it is not suitable as a beginner's book. Rather it is designed for the programmer who is familiar, but not entirely proficient with C and just wants to know how to accomplish some very focused task: "gee, what's one way to spawn a process?" I program in C a fair amount, but am not a guru at it by any means, and so I have found this book to be very useful as a resource when I wanted to do something new. I hate wading through all the nonsense you get with most C references which are slanted towards beginners and not toward those of us who have to do something real, and really quick. Most of those books contain the same information and none of them ever seem to have just that piece of information you happen to need.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Reference,
By A Customer
This review is from: Jamsa's C/C++ Programmer's Bible (Paperback)
In searching for a C++ reference I wanted three things: a well written, easy to read book; a thorough index section; and a comprehensive examination of the language. This book provides all of those things. I haven't had the chance to check all the code samples included within the book so I cannot confirm or deny of the validity of the complaints registered by other users. However, to those who deride this book because its disorganized and hard to read cover to cover: Its a REFERENCE BOOK. You aren't supposed to read it cover to cover. Any disorganization of material is more than made up for with the books excellent index (the best one I've seen in a reference book). I looked at MANY C++ references in Barnes & Noble. Since they're ALL so expensive, I wanted to be sure that I chose the right one. For my needs, this was the best choice by far.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
An OK reference, but not the "Ultimate Guide",
By A Customer
This review is from: Jamsa's C/C++ Programmer's Bible (Paperback)
One of the details sorely missing from the book title is "for DOS and MS Windows programming." I found this fact frustrating, as I'm not a MS Windows programmer. Some of the examples are general enough to lead me to the correct man page, but not enough.The book's organization and style of writing is surprisingly horrible. Just about every "tip" has the phrase "as you learned" and refers to another tip. Removing all the yous, yours, "as you have learned"s, and "In tip #, you learned that"s would probably cut the book length by a quarter. Reorganization of the tips into a more coherent order would help, too.
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