Pros: Interesting ideas; good writing; lively sense of humor
Cons: A few oversimplifications, redundancies, and appearances of pebble-snatching
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Pros: Clear overview of Extreme Programming
Cons: Some assumptions should be better supported
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Pros: Basic, clear, straightforward; includes major info on blogs; plenty of social and technical information
Cons: A few bad jokes (and that’s a matter of personal taste); a few sentences that trail into nothingness–no big deal
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Pros: Plenty of information clearly presented; information I wasn’t expecting
Cons: Too much cheerleading
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
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Pros: Extremely thorough, interesting, and helpful
Cons: Assumes an existing set of reports and samples to analyze; assumes a company rather than an individual project
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Pros: Great basics; hilarious examples
Cons: Assumes a little familiarity with programming; you’ll need more information eventually
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
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Pros: In depth treatment of PHP; useful projects; interesting
Cons: Made me feel like I was in grade school
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Pros: I actually felt like I could do something useful after I read this book; uses actual useful scripts as examples
Cons: As is standard for the VQSGs, it doesn’t get into huge amounts of depth
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Pros: Plenty of good, solid, basic concepts
Cons: Didn’t come out of the book feeling like I could do much with what I’d learned
Rating: 3 out of 5
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Pros: Detailed, specific, and helpful in all ways
Cons: Mostly aimed at medium to large companies
Rating: 5 out of 5
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