Reviews for You Can Do It!: A Beginners Introduction to Computer Programming

The average rating for You Can Do It!: A Beginners Introduction to Computer Programming based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-11-03 00:00:00 Lowell Holway This is a decent introduction to multiprocessing that uses the POSIX API and covers using processes as well as threads for multiprocessing, but won't truly satisfy more advanced programmers who already know multiprocessing basics. It covers the major challenges, provides design suggestions on tackling threading from a top down application perspective, and a very light introduction to using UML to model concurrent components. It presents the Multiagent and Blackboard architecture but doesn't really discuss any other approaches. The coverage of different processor architectures such as AMD's Opteron, IBM's Cell, Intel's Core 2 Duo, and Sun's UltraSparc T1 is brief and shallow. The book is padded with 165 filler pages (over 25%), unnecessarily replicating the pthreads API documentation in an appendix.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-11-10 00:00:00 Christopher Mcneil Working through this book too. Have three major environments in which I test the knowledge gained here. MAX OS with GCC, Windows with Visual Studio and AIX.