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India's top selling tech books
By
Saheer Karimbayil
Bangalore: As the book lovers are busy discussing about general best sellers like Amitav Gosh's latest 'Sea of Poppies' and Jeffrey Archer's thriller 'A Prisoner of Birth,' Siliconindia made an attempt to know the most selling technology related books in the IT capital of India, Bangalore.
'Object Oriented Programming with C++' by E Balaguruswamy and 'Let us C solutions' by Yashwant P Kanetkar were considered the most selling books in the last month. While the former is priced at Rs 250, the latter is available at Rs 225 "We sold around 50 copies of the each book last month," said Higginbotham staff N Nagraj. 'Let us C solutions' is a compilation of some problems in C programming language and its solution, while the other one deals with C++ language in a detailed way.
'PMP - Project Management Professional Study guide' by- Josheph Phillips is considered the second most selling book, which is priced at Rs.595.
ALE, EDT and I DOC Technologies for SAP, which was co-authored by Arvind Nagpal and John Pitlak made it to the third place. The book dwells upon the basics and delves deep into details of the core topic. The fourth best seller is Oracle OCA Oracle9i Associate DBA Certification exam guide by Jason Couchman. Priced at Rs 625, the book is mostly preferred by professionals for the certified exams.
In the fifth place is CCIE, which covers the papers of CISCO exams including BSCI, BCMSN, ONT and ISCW. Written by Yusuf Bhaiji, the book is priced at Rs.2300.
While 'A+ Certification Training Kit', 3rd edition, brought out by Microsoft and priced at Rs 695, stood at the sixth position, 'SAP R/3 Certification Exam Guide,' which covers FI, CO, MM, PP and SD modules plus ABAP/4 Development Work Bench is at the seventh slot. Written by Stewart S. Miller, the book is priced at Rs. 575.
'Computer and Financial Accounting with Tally 9.0' by Vikas Gupta is in the eighth place. Priced at Rs.249 this is a course related book, mostly preferred by institutes and students.
e-Governance by Ashok Agarwal, priced at Rs.495 and Management Information System by James Obrien , priced Rs.399 are occupying the ninth and 10th slots respectively.
'Object Oriented Programming with C++' by E Balaguruswamy and 'Let us C solutions' by Yashwant P Kanetkar were considered the most selling books in the last month. While the former is priced at Rs 250, the latter is available at Rs 225 "We sold around 50 copies of the each book last month," said Higginbotham staff N Nagraj. 'Let us C solutions' is a compilation of some problems in C programming language and its solution, while the other one deals with C++ language in a detailed way.
'PMP - Project Management Professional Study guide' by- Josheph Phillips is considered the second most selling book, which is priced at Rs.595.
ALE, EDT and I DOC Technologies for SAP, which was co-authored by Arvind Nagpal and John Pitlak made it to the third place. The book dwells upon the basics and delves deep into details of the core topic. The fourth best seller is Oracle OCA Oracle9i Associate DBA Certification exam guide by Jason Couchman. Priced at Rs 625, the book is mostly preferred by professionals for the certified exams.
In the fifth place is CCIE, which covers the papers of CISCO exams including BSCI, BCMSN, ONT and ISCW. Written by Yusuf Bhaiji, the book is priced at Rs.2300.
While 'A+ Certification Training Kit', 3rd edition, brought out by Microsoft and priced at Rs 695, stood at the sixth position, 'SAP R/3 Certification Exam Guide,' which covers FI, CO, MM, PP and SD modules plus ABAP/4 Development Work Bench is at the seventh slot. Written by Stewart S. Miller, the book is priced at Rs. 575.
'Computer and Financial Accounting with Tally 9.0' by Vikas Gupta is in the eighth place. Priced at Rs.249 this is a course related book, mostly preferred by institutes and students.
e-Governance by Ashok Agarwal, priced at Rs.495 and Management Information System by James Obrien , priced Rs.399 are occupying the ninth and 10th slots respectively.
Reader's comments(20)
1: its rite tht Let us C is a simple Book and u
can easily get the language.....but C is not
at all reading...its abt how u apply concepts
in diff situations which this two books
certainly lacked....
Posted by: Shashank Saraf - 12:00 AM Oct 02, ' 08
2: A VERY GOOD BOOK ON SELF-DEVELOPMENT,
SOFT-SKILLS OF MANAGEMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TIPS...
Dr A P J Abdul Kalam has praised the book.
"LOOK BEYOND MONEY TO GROW RICH" by SUMIT BASU - Engineer, Manager and Industrial entrepreneur for more than forty years.
A book on Self-development, Soft-skills of management & entrepreneurship tips etc.
pp 274 - Rs.200/-
For a copy please contact the publisher at: kdiwan@ubspd.com
SOME TOPICS OF THE BOOK:
What Rich people know and believe but might not tell you. You can Grow Rich.
Plan your life's aim. Success is never 'LUCK', REAL-WORTH, Specialization, Self-assessment of a 'Manager', Powers of expertise.
Thinking abilities, Imagination, Expertise and efficiency:
Managing people, Motivation, Distribution of work & delegation, Simplification of work, How to prioritize problems, A few points on saving time, Decision-making, Judge people and their dependability, Try to learn reading people, Effective criticism, How to say 'no'.
Self-esteem, Self-control, Live from within, Put yourself in others' shoes, Co-operation from others, How to earn respect, Combat worry, Find peace of mind,
Qualities of a good manager, Qualities of a good entrepreneur, Tips for new entrepreneurs, Advantages of entrepreneurship, Why we fail - A to Z of reasons of failures. Persistence often pays, Customer and why/what people buy, A few more words on marketing, The good side of partnership, How some of the world's leading entrepreneurs think.
Build India, Money surely can be made with uprightness, The story of Indian crabs - retold. Faith in God.
Dr A P J Abdul Kalam has praised the book.
"LOOK BEYOND MONEY TO GROW RICH" by SUMIT BASU - Engineer, Manager and Industrial entrepreneur for more than forty years.
A book on Self-development, Soft-skills of management & entrepreneurship tips etc.
pp 274 - Rs.200/-
For a copy please contact the publisher at: kdiwan@ubspd.com
SOME TOPICS OF THE BOOK:
What Rich people know and believe but might not tell you. You can Grow Rich.
Plan your life's aim. Success is never 'LUCK', REAL-WORTH, Specialization, Self-assessment of a 'Manager', Powers of expertise.
Thinking abilities, Imagination, Expertise and efficiency:
Managing people, Motivation, Distribution of work & delegation, Simplification of work, How to prioritize problems, A few points on saving time, Decision-making, Judge people and their dependability, Try to learn reading people, Effective criticism, How to say 'no'.
Self-esteem, Self-control, Live from within, Put yourself in others' shoes, Co-operation from others, How to earn respect, Combat worry, Find peace of mind,
Qualities of a good manager, Qualities of a good entrepreneur, Tips for new entrepreneurs, Advantages of entrepreneurship, Why we fail - A to Z of reasons of failures. Persistence often pays, Customer and why/what people buy, A few more words on marketing, The good side of partnership, How some of the world's leading entrepreneurs think.
Build India, Money surely can be made with uprightness, The story of Indian crabs - retold. Faith in God.
Posted by: SUMITBASU - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
3: Balagurusamy's C books are good for freshers
of some school, colleges, and I think they
are NOT good for programming, but scoring
marks in the theory exams, rather 'Let Us C'
is good for who want to do programs..
Posted by: Prasad C - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
4: Extremely simple book backed by solved
questions. Good for concepts also.
Recommended for freshers.
Author: Robert Lafore
Recommended for freshers.
Author: Robert Lafore
Posted by: Saurabh - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
5: For C and C++ Ritchie , Lippman are good
books. You can use Strousstroup as reference
later. For a fresher guy best thing is learn
from a faculty and book by Kochan and actual
coding in front of computer.
Learning is a process so don't be a senti on a book
Learning is a process so don't be a senti on a book
Posted by: Saurabh - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
7: Let us C and similar books are mostly used as
de facto text book by students and many
teachers. Excessive reliance on these book
for concept building is evident in poor
quality of programmers that are being
produced by most of the technical Institutes.
these books may be good for starters but not
for the undergraduate students and definitely
a NO for teachers....... but yes they are
cheap and widely available and full of
parlour tricks
Posted by: Ravi Prakash Pandey - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
8: Really nice both of this.
Check my blog like that kind of help
www.deepsoftindia.blog.com
Check my blog like that kind of help
www.deepsoftindia.blog.com
Posted by: deepsoft - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
10: Really Let us C is a very nice book to
understand and know the syntax & Logic.
Posted by: Bhabani Sankar Mohanty - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
11: Let us C is really a bad book.
I liked India' Top selling tech book article. It given some ideas of what is going on here!
only-your-views.blogspot.com
I liked India' Top selling tech book article. It given some ideas of what is going on here!
only-your-views.blogspot.com
Posted by: Satya Prakash Karan - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
12: Personally, I've detested 'Let us C' just by
the look of its presentation and methods. I'm
a great fan of 'Programming in C' by Stephen
G. Kochan. True the book is a bit outdated (I
referred to the 1987 print), but for a
beginner who is clueless about programming
this is a great start, before diving into
Kerningham and Ritchie.
Posted by: Mervin - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
13: This tells a lot about the quality of
computer education being imparted in our
institutes. The books are so much rubbish
that they should be out-rightly banned, yet
they are part of curricula. The books just
contain some fun riddles and does not teach
actual concepts of programming or the
languages.
Posted by: Trailblazer - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
14: Why do people dont read Kerningham and
Ritchie for C. Let us C is a very rubbish
book
Posted by: Mohit Katiyar - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
15: C++ is not cout,cin. It is something more
than that. It has a philosophy, a pradigm. If
someone wants indepth knowledge of OOPS and
language like C++, Java then books written by
Mr. Debasish Jana and published by PHI is the
best. Selling by quantity is definitely not
sale by quality.
Posted by: Bijit - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
16: If someone wants to have an indepth knowledge
on C++ and Java and OOPs, the books written
by Mr. Debasis Jana may be considered the
pioneers. The basics are unfolded with
example all over the book and it includes lot
of exercises. The concept is gradually
developed and the free flow of writing leads
the reader reach the goal very smoothly.
Posted by: partha - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
17: Its good if you have a first glance at
Indian authors books(gives basic fundas)
later stick on to books written by authours
who are boss of the languages like Ritchie
for C, Strous stroup for C++ and so on
Posted by: Omprakash - 12:00 AM Oct 01, ' 08
18: Have somebody read the C++ and Java books
written by Jana published by PHI? They are
excellent books with insightful coverage and
OOP basics, a must read.
Posted by: Arun - 12:00 AM Sep 30, ' 08
19: It is actually sad that people are reading
Balaguruswamy/Kanitkar instead of
Ritchie/Strousstroup/Lippman et. al...
Posted by: Mithun - 12:00 AM Sep 30, ' 08
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