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| I have to say that I have two Sams books that I've occasionally used for reference, and neither are very good. I have a teach yourself TCP/IP in 14 days that I never found very useful. I've been working on an Oracle DB for the past few days, so I brought out Oracle 8 Server Unleashed out. I was disappointed in that one as well.
Most of the information in these books isn't all that useful, and what there is seems difficult to find. They seem to be written from more of an engineering/theoretical perspective then actually applied technology. I would not recommend the books. | |
| FloatingMonkey 2002-03-12, 5:11 pm |
| I agree, a lot of the sams books are very good.
-Flo | |
| Pavlov 2002-03-13, 12:01 pm |
| I generally stay away from anything that says "Teach yourself in 14 days"  | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-03-13, 12:47 pm |
| Some of them are useful, but not the programming onces. Some things you really can learn pretty quickly (like EMACS for example), other things take months (programming). | |
| wildscribe 2002-03-13, 2:49 pm |
| I find Sams to be a mixed bag. Some books are horrible, and some are pretty good. I recently picked up a copy of "Red Hat Linux 7.2 Unleashed" and I was disappointed to see that it was basically a rehash of all the previous "Red Hat Linux Unleashed" books with a different cover. I also think the book devotes too much space to Perl programming. If someone wants to learn Perl, they can buy a Perl book.
But I have to disagree with the opinion on "Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours second edition." This is an excellent book and does a great job explaining subnetting and the OSI layers. I have recommended this book to several people and they have all agreed with me. It was written by Joe Casad, who writes for several networking trade magazines and he did an excellent job. This is a excellent book for those folks without much networking experience, and need to get up to speed quickly.
- Wild |
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