PC Intern: The Encyclopedia of System Programming (Developers Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (653 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557553041 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 985 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A very in-depth reference book on hard to find PC info. We used this book in a systems programming class I had at IIT in Chicago. It is not the end all "bible of PC", but it is certainly a very, very good book. Much of the information you will never use, but there will come a time when you will need that one sub-routine that no one else can find or understands, and you pull a code snippet out of this book, app. "Caution: Proceed with care!" according to A Customer. Even though this book contains a lot of information about low-level programming, you should read it very, very carefully. The book would have received a rating of 10 were it not for the fact that there are several errors across various chapters. Some of the book's explanations can also be a bit misleading at times.Here are some examples of the errors you'. Useful or not? Well, what to say about this book ? On one hand, it has really good examples for system programming. On the other hand, you sometimes should ask yourself: "Man, this is a good code and it works wellbut, what is the use for myself?" What I want to say, is that you often learn good tricks but you will never need them. Sometimes there are also things, which
Already used by 600,000 programmers in its previous editions, this encyclopedia presents up-to-date technical information on virtually every aspect of the PC--from its architecture and make-up to its built-in components and add-on peripherals. The CD-ROM includes every program from the book.. The authors clearly explain system level programming, illustrating their solutions in C++, assembly language, Pascal, and Visual Basic