Review: A Valuable Refrence Guide
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
This is a great book for anyone wanting to learn about the internal workings of a computer. It is very clearly laid out with lots of pictures that any beginner will enjoy.Douglas L Miller has compiled great information and shows it to us in a very clear manner. I love the amount of pictures for every step. I got this book with teaching my 11 year old son about computers in mind. It will be perfect for him, but don't worry it is not childish or geared towards kids in anyway (other than simplicity).It should be noted that the author does go into detail, but he even says different components and configurations can call for different needs while installing. So if you plan on using this as a guide to build, you do need to have some mechanical, problem solving, and general "techy" skills.There is a great list of resources, and links that anyone who builds computers has visited on many occasions.This covers all of the basics needed to build any system and you can take it as far or keep it as simple as you'd like. I found nothing out of date as someone else mentioned. Of course there is always bigger and better technologies coming out in the computer industry, but this book isn't about that. It's about how to build one from the ground up, and this is a solid foundation.I highly recommend this to anyone looking to get into computers, advanced users probably won't learn anything new, but it can still be a very valuable reference guide, especially when needing to explain things to younger kids, or people not familiar with the components.