God Made Them All (Microsoft Certified Solution Developers Series) [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 720 pages
• Publisher: Divine Favors Publications; 2nd edition
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072125802
• ISBN-13: 978-0072125801
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,474,186 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, October 22, 2002

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Kevin (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: God Made Them All (Microsoft Certified Solution Developers Series) (Paperback)

The feeling I got when I finished this book was "where was the proof reader during the publishing process?". Maybe I'm being a little hard on the publisher, but this is supposed to be a book designed to prepare the reader for an exam, and as such, should be carefully reviewed for errors. It has the potential to be a sound review given the breadth of topics covered, but the number of typos damage its credibility. I've worked with this technology for almost a year in the working world, and found the misprints annoying at best. I shouldnt have to debug the examples, as didactic as it may be, and I can only imagine how someone with less experience would feel navigating this book. My recommendation: Fire the proof reader, correct the mistakes and publish the errata. Then you'll have a useful text.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I feel disappointed with Osborne's exam titles, November 12, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: God Made Them All (Microsoft Certified Solution Developers Series) (Paperback)

I bought a few exam books from Osborne for my Oracle and MCAD exams. The oracle one, I have nothing else to say but "incomplete" coverage. Well, I thought it might be the author's issue, so I bought this book for my 305 again. After reading the first half (350 pages), I feel my $ was wasted again. The content is not well organized at all and errors are everywhere (I even doubt the authors speak English well). For code example, forget about it. I have to buy another Wrox book, "Professional Vb .Net (2nd)", to make sure I'm OK with the test objectives. I think Osborne is shooting its feet for publishing this "rush and dirty" books without serious review. For me, this is the last book from them, definitely.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not checked for accuracy, April 4, 2003

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Silverstein - See all my reviews

This review is from: God Made Them All (Microsoft Certified Solution Developers Series) (Paperback)

This book contains a number of errors, both in the text itself, and in the programming examples. The errors are obviously confusing and frustrating, since you're trying to learn the material and prepare for the test - the last thing you want to be doing is trying to figure out the authors' mistakes.

The core material *is* covered in the text; it's just that you'll be spending time going back and forth between pages trying to reconcile contradictory statements, or going nuts trying to figure out why step 3 in some exercise doesn't produce what the authors said it would.

If you already know ASP.NET and ADO.NET fairly well, you should be able to guess what the authors were shooting for, and this may be a decent exam prep for you. I wouldn't try actually trying to learn from this (i.e., if you're under a tight deadline to learn the material and get certified).