This book is more of a general overview of the experiences of several engineers rather than an exact how to book. While interesting, the reader may be dissappointed to find that it is not as practically applicable as the title suggests.

I originally bought this book awhile ago to get an idea on what engineering was and what I might expect as an engineer and it was really helpful. Recommended to all future engineers.

The authors have taken a good idea and suffocated it in statistical formulae, factor loadings, and F-ratios. The authors describe seven inviolable norms and nine admonitory norms for college teachers. These make sense, but in many ways they remark the obvious. The writing, while correct, is far from inspiring. I suspect that about 5% of college teachers violate some of these norms, but those of us who don't won't find much here for edification or instruction. Why is it that good teaching and learning can be so inspiring and uplifting, while books like this, which purport to be about teaching and learning, are dryasdust? Save your $.

Finally, someone has written something about faculty misconduct in our universities. Too often, people overlook the behaviour of the faculty in college teaching. Too often, people believe that just because one is a professor, that somehow that means the person is immune from doing a bad job. Professors work under VERY lax environments, and that, combined with tenure, is a recipe for misconduct. Anyone who has spent any amount of time on a college campus can tell stories about professors who don't prepare for class, give high grades for work that is poor in order to be popular with students, or who don't come to class at all. While Baxton and Bayer have made a valuable contribution to the public, more research needs to be done on this seriously neglected topic. When partents are asked to take out a loan against their home, and taxpayers are shelling out more and more money to fund higher education, it is suprising that research like this has not been done sooner.

This review is based on a cursory first impression of the book C++ Scientific Programming. When I ordered this book I was excited with anticipation of discovering high quality, well-documented code that I could use with little modification in various projects. Unfortunately, as I briefly scanned the first three chapters of the book, I found one particular error immediately that appears consistently throughout the book. The error involves de-allocation of memory allocated with the new[] array operator. Dr. Berryhill consistently uses the plain delete operator instead of the delete[] operator. That is an error resulting in potentially huge memory leaks. Furthermore, it is a very basic error which in my opinion should be caught by the author not the reader five minutes after opening the package in which the book arrived. This error immediately stifled my excitement and I became more skeptical. Further complaints include the lack of templated classes; every numerical class uses a double as the underlying fundamental type. Also, the include files in the source code follow this general format:
#include "C:/jcb32/book/source/xxx.h"
I want the code to compile in whatever directory I choose to install it in. I don't necessarily want to replicate the directory structure shown above on my hard drive in which the root directory is obviously named after the author.

To the book's credit, however, many appealing subjects are covered, and perhaps with the code provided and the book's discussion of the algorithms, a reader could implement his/her own library without the egregious errors.

My suggestion would be to first look at libraries such as MTL and Blitz++ which truly use modern C++ programming techniques.

This book had an insane number of errors, including incorrect formulae, incomplete questions and inconsistent answers. Not only that, but the "Practice Tests" were not anything like a true sample MCAT would be. Many questions tested irrelevant detail that would never be tested in this form on a real MCAT (e.g. "A midsagittal section will divide the body into: A. equal superior and inferior portions. B. equal lateral portions. C. equal anterior and posterior portions. D. unequal lateral portions.") Some of the Verbal Reasoning passages were on science topics--the true MCAT would never have science topics in that section. And even the writing prompts for the Writing Sample section are wrong! This book was a total waste of my money.

I found this book to be quite useless. It was poorly written and filled with editorial errors. Furthermore, the supposed "sample MCATs" did not at all resemble the actual test. Oftentimes, the science passages in the book were little more than a paragraph. In addition, the book stressed unimportant trivia while overlooking vital concepts.

the book doesn't even have organic chem questions! so biological sciences were just biology!!! and obscure biology w/ alot of terminology that you'll never need for the mcat! the science passages are far from the real mcat...everything is too easy!

The author of this book is a SELF-PROCLAIMED expert. Much of what he says is utter nonsense and on further research I discovered that the schools being promoted are the schools he himself owns. Caveat Emptor

BEWARE!

This book, a "1997 edition," has obviously changed only the date. Case in point: Bellarmine College (Louisville, KY) has the same information listed that it did the first time I checked out this web site, in January 1995. As the site does not state otherwise, I can only believe that this is supposed to be the "current" editiion. Bellarmine now has a wonderful new library, among many of the other omissions in this section alone. Based on these errors and flaws, I would not recommend this book to anyone who wants correct and up-to-date information