On 2008-05-24 Alexander Lehmann, Berlin, Germany wrote: My title says it all. The book starts relativly good by giving an useful introduction into Symbian Programming and introducing the basic programming paradigms. I also like the chapter about how to avoid common pitfalls and about descriptors.
After the example section the book goes to introduce the basic functionality of some libraries, but stays too much on the surface to deliver some advantage over reading the official documentation.
Some examples (for example in the file system services part) also seem to be outdated.
Not so much work seems to have gone into creating an index - it is overbloated with useless page citings. It seems as if somebody just took a number of keywords searched the document and added them directly to the index, even if the keyword at a page is not relevant at all. For example the keyword ´UIDs´ points to 19 different pages!
My recommendation: For an introduction take a look at S60 Programming - A Tutorial Guide by Wiley (same publisher). I found that to be organized better for beginners. If you are beyond that stage, use the internet forums or the Symbian documentation.. And summed up by saying Good introduction but examples are outdated and index is useless. Currently Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones (Symbian Press) has an overall rating of 6 over 10.
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