Download PDF Blockchain For Dummies For Dummies Computer/Tech 9781119555018 Computer Science Books

Product details Series For Dummies (Computer/Tech) Paperback 256 pages Publisher For Dummies; 2 edition (May 7, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1119555019

Blockchain For Dummies For Dummies Computer/Tech 9781119555018 Computer Science Books Reviews

• This book is sailing under false colors. It's not a book about computer algorithms or data structures. It's a how-to for people who want to use bitcoin for themselves. It doesn't explain how it works, just what to do to sign up to use it.
• The introductory chapter does a horrible job at explaining how blockchains work. A couple of algorithm types are mentioned without giving insight as to what the general functions of the algorithms are. As a huge fan of Wiley's books for Dummies (I taught myself Calculus and Statistics via their books), I have to say that I have been severely let down by the content of this book.
• There are many books and resources on internet on Blockchain and its applications. This book by Tiana Laurence has the right balance between readability and clear exposition and technical details. Further, it provides useful links to resources on internet and step-by-step guide to how to use many of these resources. I teach a class on Blockcahin applications to MBA students at UCLA Anderson. Will recommend this book to my students.
• Blockchain for Dummies is a paper on blockchain for an insider who knows something about blockchain. If you do not know anything about blockchain, you will not learn anything by reading this book. The book is fairly superficial, in that it does not explain blockchain but rather it sets forth companies who are active in blockchain and what those companies are doing about blockchain. It is revealing (on page 75 of the book) that the author of the book is a co-founder of and the chief marketing officer at Factum, Inc., a developer of uses of blockchain. Thus, the author plugs blockchain without telling you much about it. For example, the author uses the term hashing and then defines it as simply "transforming data of any size into short, fixed-length values". That definition is not very useful. The author also uses technical terms like "kibibytes" and "Merkle trees" and "scalability" without much of a definition. As a result, after reading the book I was not smarter about blockchain, though I did know some of the companies that are working on blockchain.
• Crap of a book. You can get all the information in this book by just searching blockchain and its applications in google. Dont waste your money on this.
• Enjoyable, I recommend it
• Blockchain for Dummies must have been rushed to market. I've never seen so many grammatical and spelling errors in a book ever. It read like an early draft of a book -- bad syntax so you have to figure out what the author is saying almost sentence by sentence. Also, it didn't give me much insight into how the blockchain works. It's more of a collection of anecdotes and facts about the blockchain.
• Great coverage of a wide variety of solutions. Good guidance to get started.