Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido D'Arezzo

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If you can read musical notes, you can sing any song or play any piece. But musical notes have not always been here. Long ago, songs were memorized. If songs were forgotten, they were lost forever. Thanks to one man, Guido d"Arezzo, music now can last forever.

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Great history lesson and interesting to children, too........2007-08-24

I use this book in my music classes for grades 4 and above. I found it to be a great read and an interesting story for my students.

a fun survey which will reach fiction and nonfiction readers alike........2007-06-11

If you can read musical notes you can sing or play any piece - but there was a time when songs had to be memorized lest they be forgotten. It was Guido d'Arezzo whose efforts lead to the sheet music records we have today, and his biography and challenges are here presented in a lively fictional form backed by solid facts. Kids in grades 2-4 will appreciate the fun, lively chatty format of DO RE ME: IF YOU CAN READ MUSIC, THANK GUIDO D'AREZZO: a fun survey which will reach fiction and nonfiction readers alike.

"Without a ... writing sytem, music could exist only in the present tense".......2007-02-16

I never gave a thought to the system of written music or its inventor; the system of notes and clefs and staves seems so much bigger than one person could create. And yet, our system of musical notation was developed in the 10th century by an Italian monk from the tiny Tuscan town of Arezzo. This picture book biography explains the how and the why of Guide d'Arezzo's invention, including the struggles he had to go through to convince choirmasters and others that there was any benefit to written music. A fascinating story for musicians and non-musicians alike. The only fault I have with this book are the torn-paper collages. The scenery and backgrounds are lovely, but the human figures are so primitive and clunky looking that it detracts from the story.

Do Re Mi.......2007-02-07

Thoughful and charming presentation of how musical notation came to be created. The choice of subject does credit to the author's questioning mind in that she decided to explore something that's been around for centuries and that we usually take for granted. It is important to let children know that some things that always seem to have been in existence were actually begun by someone who saw the need for innovation and did something about changing the situation.

You Can Read Music (with Audio CD) (You Can)

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Perfect for beginners and as a reference
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Excellent for beginners

You Can Read Music (with Audio CD) (You Can)

Manufacturer: Amsco Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0825615143
Release Date: 1995-12-31

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This series provides all you need to know to be the musician you want to be! Each package includes an easy step-by-step book and a one hour compact disc filled with useful exercises and professional arrangements. This complete music instruction studio is all you need to begin reading music like a pro. The basics can be mastered in just a few weeks.

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Perfect for beginners and as a reference.......2005-10-10

I bought this book for my husband, who is a natural musician but hadn't learned to read music. I chose it because it was thorough and well organized. He loves it. This was the book he used when he needed to read music to join a band. It taught him everything he needed to know and continues to serve as an excellent reference. It covers everything.

Great.......2005-07-09

Already could read most music by sight, but occassionally found some kind of notation that I was not familiar with so bought this book.

Very good overall

The good -
- lots of examples make things easy to understand
- takes things very slow at the beginning - even someone with no experience in reading sheet music whatsoever should be able to pick up this book and learn everything in a few days
- overall, very complete guide, with lots of fairly esoteric notation included (not so much esoteric, but stuff you wouldn't see until very advanced pieces)
- pretty well organized, makes for a great quick reference

The bad -
- kind of pricey for 80 some pages
- included cd is nice but not terribly helpful
- book is sort of cumbersome - they try to keep it the same size as your other sheet music books might be, but i would rather be leafing through this in my spare time, instead of propping it up on my piano, so the size doesn't really make sense... should have been smaller
- sometimes too many examples on simple ideas, not enough on hard ideas
- some things are kind of breezed through and it sometimes seems like information is missed - for example, some accent marks that you might find occassionally are not listed in this book, which can be frustrating - this typically means that the mark can be written many ways, and one of the ways *is* in the book, but unless you know all the forms of the accent, you're going to be lost
- a few more pages could have been devoted to chords - the information is complete, but fairly 'intense' - there is a lot packed into a very small section

Sooooooo... overall I definately give this 5 stars, my complaints, though numerous, are very small, and i HIGHLY recommend this to anyone trying to learn to read sheet music.

Excellent for beginners.......2002-11-28

I bought and read this book some 40 odd pages and already I'm into reading music just like the way the title reads. Good job by the author.

Can You Read Me?: Creative Writing With Child and Adult Victims of Abuse

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Can You Read Me?: Creative Writing With Child and Adult Victims of Abuse

Manufacturer: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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Learn to Read Music (In two evenings you can learn to read practically any melody and pick it out on the piano by doing the clear and simple exercises)

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Learn to Read Music (In two evenings you can learn to read practically any melody and pick it out on the piano by doing the clear and simple exercises)
Howard Shanet
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Learn to Read Music

ASIN: B000MBRUW8

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You Can Read Music
Duane S. Crowther
Manufacturer: Horizon Pub & Dist Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0882906801

You Can Read Music/Usted Puede Leer Música

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You Can Read Music/Usted Puede Leer Música
Duane Crowther
Manufacturer: Cedar Fort, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0882907484
Release Date: 2003-05-01

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You Can Read Music is written in brief, carefully organized lessons. The concepts are explained so clearly that you'll be able to understand them without outside help. You Can Read Music can be used as a brief text-book. Elementary school teachers can use it to teach their students. Middle school and high school choir directors can strengthen their choirs by presenting the lessons in brief segments as part of their daily rehearsal schedule. Private piano instructors can teach the lessons as part of the weekly course of study they outline for their students. Parents can use the book to teach their children, and if they don't know the basics of music, reading it is a wonderful way to acquire their own musical literacy. You can feel confident that when you've mastered the ideas presented in this book, you'll truly be knowledgeable in the music-readng process. You'll be musically literate, and you'll know for sure that You Can Read Music. Usted Puede Leer Música está escrito cuidadosamente, en lecciones organizadas y en un pequeño formato. Las puede estudiar individualmente. Si lo hace, encontrará que los conceptos están explicados tan claramente que usted será capaz de entenderlos sin ayuda. Por eso, Usted Puede Leer Música puede ser usado como un pequeño libro de texto también. Los maestros de las escuelas primarias pueden usarlo para enseñarles a sus alumnos. En el secundario, los directores de los coros pueden agilizar las enseñanzas de sus alumnos, presentando las lecciones en pequeños segmentos como parte de sus clases diarias. Un instructor privado de piano u otros instrumentos puede dictar sus lecciones como parte de los cursos semanales de las tareas de sus estudiantes. Los padres pueden usar el libro para enseñar a sus hijos, y si ellos no saben lo básico de la música, leyendo, es una manera maravillosa de que adquieran su conocimiento musical. Usted puede sentirse confiado de que cuando haya aprendido las ideas presentadas en este libro, estará verdaderamente capacitado en el proceso de leer música. Puede gozar más de ella y sabrá, por cierto, que Usted Puede Leer Música.

Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido D'Arezzo.(Book review): An article from: American Music Teacher

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Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido D'Arezzo.(Book review): An article from: American Music Teacher
Diane Higgins
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from American Music Teacher, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2007. The length of the article is 418 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido D'Arezzo.(Book review)
Author: Diane Higgins
Publication: American Music Teacher (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 56 Issue: 6 Page: 96(2)

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Usted Puede Leer Musica/You Can Read Music (Spanish and English)

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Usted Puede Leer Musica/You Can Read Music (Spanish and English)
Duane S. Crowther
Manufacturer: Horizon Pub & Dist Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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Can You Read My Mind? Love Them from "Superman" (Arranged for Piano by Dan Coates)

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Can You Read My Mind? Love Them from "Superman" (Arranged for Piano by Dan Coates)
John Williams
Manufacturer: Warner Bros. Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Sheet music
ASIN: B000UJCJNC

Can You Read My Mind? Love Theme from "Superman" (Arranged for Piano by Dan Coates)

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Can You Read My Mind? Love Theme from "Superman" (Arranged for Piano by Dan Coates)
John Williams
Manufacturer: Warner Bros. Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Sheet music
ASIN: B000UJFP1U

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Nice Cover Girl.......2001-12-12

Hey that's my sister on the cover, so I have to give it five stars. (I would have anyway.) pj

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Media critics invariably disparage the quality of programming produced by the U.S. television industry. But why the industry produces what it does is a question largely unasked. It is this question, at the crux of American popular culture, that Switching Channels explores.

In the past twenty-five years, the expansion of cable and satellite systems has transformed television. Richard Caves examines the economics of this phenomenon--and the nature and logic of the broadcast networks' response to the incursion of cable TV, especially the shift to inexpensive unscripted game and "reality" shows and "news" magazines. An explanation of these changes, Caves argues, requires an understanding of two very different sectors: the "creative industry," which produces programs; and the commercial channels, which bring them to viewers. His book shows how distributors' judgment of profitability determines the quality and character of the programs the creative industry produces. This determination, writes Caves, depends on the number and types of viewers that various programs can attract and advertisers' willingness to pay for their attention, as well as the organization of the networks that package programs, the distributors that transmit them, and the deals these parties strike with one another.

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Excellent book about a still obscure, but important, research field.......2006-03-03

Prof. Caves does an excellent job in this book, ellucidating many obscure aspects of a very important industry.

Sadly, although there are many books dealing with the political aspects of the media (including broadcasting), it's very difficult to find some reference about the industrial organizations of this industry. Only for that the book is already very welcome.

The more math-orientated readers can find the book lacking more mathematical rigour. Indeed, there are no equations and formulas in the text, what is mainly descriptive. Still I don't see this as a fault, since Prof. Caves excels in the art of making insightful observations about the industry even if he doesn't use rigourous mathematical proofs. I also suspect that this industry is plagued by a shortness of easy access to good data.

I highly recommend it.

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The utility simply known as make is one of the most enduring features of both Unix and other operating systems. First invented in the 1970s, make still turns up to this day as the central engine in most programming projects; it even builds the Linux kernel. In the third edition of the classic Managing Projects with GNU make, readers will learn why this utility continues to hold its top position in project build software, despite many younger competitors. The premise behind make is simple: after you change source files and want to rebuild your program or other output files, make checks timestamps to see what has changed and rebuilds just what you need, without wasting time rebuilding other files. But on top of this simple principle, make layers a rich collection of options that lets you manipulate multiple directories, build different versions of programs for different platforms, and customize your builds in other ways. This edition focuses on the GNU version of make, which has deservedly become the industry standard. GNU make contains powerful extensions that are explored in this book. It is also popular because it is free software and provides a version for almost every platform, including a version for Microsoft Windows as part of the free Cygwin project. Managing Projects with GNU make, 3rd Edition provides guidelines on meeting the needs of large, modern projects. Also added are a number of interesting advanced topics such as portability, parallelism, and use with Java. Robert Mecklenburg, author of the third edition, has used make for decades with a variety of platforms and languages. In this book he zealously lays forth how to get your builds to be as efficient as possible, reduce maintenance, avoid errors, and thoroughly understand what make is doing. Chapters on C++ and Java provide makefile entries optimized for projects in those languages. The author even includes a discussion of the makefile used to build the book.

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Does what it should do.......2007-07-02

I've used make and makefiles for many years. In my current product development there was suddenly a need for a little more than the standard make knowledge. For most Open Source tools there is a good O'reilly book, so I grabbed this one from the store.

This book exactly fitted to my need. It does what it should do, it explain make, and nothing more. Already after part 1 I got useful new bits of information. Nothing major, just small "ah-ha, that's how the do it"'s.

The book is structured ok (I felt it could be structured better, but have no suggestion how). It consists of basic and advanced parts. The basic part will cover rules, variables, functions and commands. The advanced will talk about large project, C++, Java, examples and some debugging.

All the basic concepts chapters were pretty good. Somehow I didn't enjoy the advanced chapters too much. I didn't feel I was learning much new things there. The Java chapter was a little odd. I've not met any Java developer who currently uses make, most have switched to ant quite some time ago (book was 2004, so might be changed in the fourth edition). The example makefile of the book was somehow not interesting. The second example makefile was the linux kernel. This was more interesting, but it didn't go into too much details.

All in all, I found it a good book. It gave me exactly what I needed. Somehow the writing style was a little dry. I couldn't really point my finger on what made it so.

I'll give it 3 stars. Not because it's not good, but exactly because it's a good book. However, it didn't give me something extra, which I always hope a book gives me.

Recommended when needing to know more about Make :)

Well organized, competent but uninspired and biased.......2007-06-25

Mr. Mecklernburg is definitely an expert in GNU Make and the book shows it. The information it contains is well organized and the author doesn't spend precious time on non-essentials.

The downsize of the book consists in the total lack of fun it produces. The reader has no joy while learning about make and he may quickly find himself yawning at pages and pages of explanations with little or no examples that smooth out the learning curve.

The book seems as if the author tried to show off his knowledge with the best eficiency per page and in the smallest number of pages. He succeeded, at least with me: I am convinced that Mr. Mecklenburg is an excellent engineer but a terrible teacher.

Besides the content not being enjoyable, it is so much biased towards *nix that the Windows programmer righfully asks himself "what about me"? The solution offered by Mr. Mecklenburg for Windows consists in the... Cygwin environment. I'll abstain from commenting on this suggested choice.

Despite its drawbacks, the programmer may find enough material to learn from it and get the job done. But make no mistake: this is not a feat and you'll need quite some determination to finish this book and extract something useful out of it.

Excellent resource for programmers.......2007-06-15

Make has been an icon in the GNU / Linux world for over thirty years now, and continues to be one of the most used utilities to ever be released on the platform. A good number of other projects have risen to take its place as an automated-build utility, but as of yet, none have been able to unseat Make. Some see Make as being too arcane and finicky to survive in the once it is confronted with an advanced, user-friendly, utility of the same purpose. However, as it stands now, Make is still the standard in the `industry', and Makefiles are distributed with almost every major software package on the GNU / Linux platforms (as well as some others!).

Any avid Linux or UNIX power user, as well as most system administrators, will need to have some knowledge of Make to do what they need. Programmers, on the other hand, need to have an intimate knowledge of Make, Makefiles, and what the abilities of Make are. This book is more for the latter group, and goes into detail that the former group probably doesn't need to know too much about. For the former group, I would suggest a more concise, simplified version of this book. For the programmers, this book is a must-have.

As I mentioned before, Make can be a little finicky at some points. This, some may say, is an understatement. There are a number of "gotcha's" in the language, as well as a lot of `hackish' features (when I say `hackish', think Perl `hackish'). Perhaps, more importantly, however, there are a lot of fairly advanced features that Make can handle, and few people seem to use these. This is where the book really shines - it goes over the rarely-seen, but perhaps some of the most advanced features, of the Make utility.

This might seem obvious to most, but the novel assumes that the reader has previous programming experience, and throws C++ code blocks at the reader on the third page of the first chapter. If you don't have any programming experience, you probably shouldn't be reading this book anyways - but I thought it worth mentioning.

The primary content of the book is split into two sections - basic topics, and then the more advanced topics. The author does an excellent job of starting out with the absolute basics, and slowly progressing into the more advanced topics at an easy-to-follow pace. I never felt like the pace was too fast, and the author does an excellent job of giving examples for each of the topics that require one. Each example is explained in detail, with an added bonus of a few "what-ifs" at some points.

In fact, this leads into one of my few complaints with the book. There is so much code, and so much text, and... well... nothing else. There are maybe a dozen and a half pages in the book that aren't just one big solid block of text. After a while, it becomes hard to take. It doesn't help that each page looks almost exactly the same, so after a while, things start to kind of bleed together. In the next edition, it would be nice to maybe see some page styling, new layouts, some more images / tables where possible, maybe some funny side anecdotes or something - *anything* to give the text some life.

Once you accept the pedantry of the text, you will find that it is extremely well written, and easy to understand. There were very few instances in which I had to re-read something multiple times to get an understanding of what was being communicated, and the author's ability to describe even complex topics in simple terms is really impressive at some points.

The advanced sections of the book delve into some topics that I didn't expect to see, and was honestly pleasantly surprised that they made their way into the text. Included in the list of `surprise topics' are alternatives to Make, benchmarking Make, parallel Make, distributed Make, third-party programs that work with Make to add new functionality, and even sections on Cygwin and Make.

Also in the advanced partition of the book were two other sections that I found to be extremely helpful, if not essential: Debugging Makefiles, and Example Makefiles. The Example Makefiles chapter includes both excellent Makefile examples as well as discussion of what is happening in them. The Debugging Makefiles chapter goes over a lot of the "gotcha's" in the language, how to find a problem, and then possible fixes for it. These were both nice touches to the book, and are examples of the dedication the author shows to covering the more difficult parts of the language.

For the purposes of an in-depth, complete tutorial in Make, this book succeeds wonderfully. The author, although a little pedantic in the design and layout, does an excellent job of communicating each lesson. I recommend this book to any professional or hobbies programmer looking to get a little extra control over the build process.

Nice book; available on the net for free.......2007-06-03

I've just begun reading the book and it's a nice book on GNU's make. As already mentioned, it is not a handbook but rather more like a discussion of how to best use make in your builds. That said, I'd like to point out that the text is available on the net for free. If you look at the associated O'Reilly web-page for this book, you can find the link entitled "Online Book" - click on that to see the index of the free, online book.

Good Overview.......2007-03-15

This book is a good place to start for learning how to manage large projects with GNU Make. It covers the basics and then moves on to specialized topics including writing portable makefiles, increasing makefile performance, and debugging makefiles. I've been using GNU Make for years and still found the book worth reading.

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Managing Projects With Make
Andrew; Talbott, Steve Oram
Manufacturer: O'reilly & Associates, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RIWV0W

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You may even find this book helpful in Windows
Index very very shallow
Good Book
The book explain make clearly
Make

Managing Projects with Make
Steve Talbott
Manufacturer: Longman Higher Education
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0937175188

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make is one of UNIX's greatest contributions to software development, and this book is the clearest description of make ever written. Even the smallest software project typically involves a number of files that depend upon each other in various ways. If you modify one or more source files, you must relink the program after recompiling some, but not necessarily all, of the sources. make greatly simplifies this process. By recording the relationships between sets of files, make can automatically perform all the necessary updating. For large projects with teams of programmers and multiple releases, make becomes even more critical. But in order to avoid spending a major portion of your maintenance budget on maintaining the Makefiles, you need a system for handling directories, dependencies, and macro definitions. This book describes all the basic features of make and provides guidelines on meeting the needs of large, modern projects. Some of the issues addressed in the second edition include:

Projects covering several directories.
Maintaining consistency when building variants of a program.
Automatic generation of header file dependencies.
Forced rebuilds of existing files.
A description of free products that contain major enhancements to make.
Listings of the features that vary between different versions of make and simple ways to test them.
More detail and examples on common errors, use of the shell in make, formal rules of syntax in make, and support for various utilities.

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You may even find this book helpful in Windows.......2002-01-31

Unfortunately there is nothing quite like this book (at least that I have ever found) for Windows nmake. In a former life I was a Unix programmer and I found this book invaluable, especially for creating custom suffix rules and recursive makefiles. Now that I am a Windows developer, I still refer to this book on occasion.

There is a lot of information packed in this book. Read it carefully, as it is easy to miss important information. I have marked up my copy with a highlighter pen and have a number of Post-It's stuck on those important sections. Perhaps a better layout, with wider margins and bulleted notes in the margins would have made it more readable and easier to find things after it has sat on the bookshelf for a while.

For the most part this book also applies to the Microsoft nmake utility (comes with Visual C++). I have yet to find anything equivalent for nmake, and the MSDN information on nmake is severely lacking. Apparently the folks at Microsoft believe everyone uses the built-in development environment in VC++, but for managing and building complex projects it is absolutely necessary to write and maintain your own makefiles.

Index very very shallow.......2001-05-23

Maybe this is a good book, but you wouldn't be able to tell that by the index. Something as basic as using conditionals with make(if .. then) should be indexed for easy referance. I've had to root through the book for various situations like this because the index was so sparse. I have had much more luck using the GNUmake online manuals which are free.

Good Book.......2001-03-25

I recently had to work on our project's make file. The first look at it made me nervous. Fortunately I found this book. This book is a great introduction to unix' power tool 'make'. The authors clearly had enough experience to tell us what,how and whys. The first chapter generates excitement to continue on to the next ones. Chapters two and three must be read with lots of patience. Remember, 'make' is a complex tool used for complex projects. Its not an easy go.Troubleshooting section listed some common problems, which, by the way, are really helpful. The project management is good too. The only complaint I have with this book is it is a little pricey.For thirty bucks, I expect more bang. The authors could have updated the book with new breed of make tools like Apache's 'ant'. An example of building a project could have really helped. The man pages listed for 'make' on my unix system didnt take me far enough to grasp this tool. I highly recommend it to beginners.

The book explain make clearly.......2001-02-01

Followed comments from previous reviewers, I look make infomation at gnu site, but I cannot understand make. After I take a look at this book, in half day I understand almost all the make tricks. This book explain make clearly. Highly recommended.

Make.......2000-09-07

Excellent book for learning the syntax of make, make's variable conventions, and environmental variable settings. The book gives a good base for understanding the makefile format and flow. Highly recommended for those who don't understand the Makefile approach and need an understanding of exsisting Makefiles.

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