Xref: utzoo comp.graphics.visualization:675 comp.graphics:18630 alt.graphics:172 alt.books.technical:509 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!pikes!slate!mfriedel From: mfriedel@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Friedel Michael) Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization,comp.graphics,alt.graphics,alt.books.technical Subject: Re: Book: Lee Adams' Visualization Graphics in C Message-ID: <1991Jun16.031025.7107@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: 16 Jun 91 03:10:25 GMT References: <1991Jun10.204207.548@digi.lonestar.org> <1991Jun12.211235.712@digi.lonestar.org> Organization: Colorado School of Mines Lines: 31 In article khan@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Coleman) writes: >jgay@digi.lonestar.org (john gay) writes: > >author has about half a dozen (and growing) books published by TAB/Windcrest/ >whatever they're calling themselves this week. The C books have horrendous >code examples, just as you describe. The other books are (surprise, surprise) >written in BASIC. It almost looks as though Adams wrote one book, with BASIC >code, and cloned it into a whole series of books, making only minimal changes >(like running the BASIC through a translation program to get C code and making >only those changes necessary to get it to compile and run). > >I made the mistake of buying two of these books sight unseen through a book >club; biggest waste of money I can think of. Anyone thinking of buying a Lee >Adams graphics book, JUST SAY NO. You'll be glad you did! > I agree, a frien gave me a book called 'High performance graphics in C' and after reading this message I took another look at the cover, and surprise surprise ADAMS wrote it. I just remeber lookking at it the first time , and my first though was, that this was the worst, and slowest C code I had seen in my life. And yes most of it look like it has been run through some kind of pre-processor to convert it from BASIC to C. On top of all that most of the things he talks about in the book are of absolutely no intrest, I can almost find more information on ghraphics in a DOS manual than in his book. And it is all PC oriented (I hate PC's). Just my humble opinion. Mike -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ No user serviceable part inside. Warranty void if opened modified or tampered with. No batteries included. *