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In this task, you are given books product reviews in English language. The goal is to classify the review as "POS" if the overall sentiment of the review is positive or as "NEG" if the overall sentiment of the review is negative.
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Awful book on its own for complete beginner . I wanted to teach my son to program and chose VB and this book. This book really "looks" great but I'm not impressed by the content. So much so that it compelled me to write my first ever book review. The introduction "Who Is This Book For?" gives a sense that this book can get people into programming. I would be amazed however if anyone not familiar with programming will get past Chapter 1 without being frightened by the whole prospect of programming. Chapter 1 initially jumps into some Microsoft marketing of .Net which really adds nothing but confuses the readers by having to deal with line after line of computer jargon. Then the chapter gives a horrible overview of Object Orientation which again doesn't help later. I feel the whole book is like the first chapter. Doesn't give you some of the basics but rambles about more complex stuff you don't need between some hands on practical stuff. I actually thought the first example was really poor also. I am of the opinion that someone typing something in themselves and seeing it work should be rewarding. The example however was hard for a novice as it had long lines of comments and the line to print the variables was a minefield of quotes and symbols making it pretty likely that a beginner would do a typo. The title of the book is "Build a Program Now!". This the book does and given how complex setting up an environment it is helpful. But I've slammed the rating of this book because this could have covered with a lot less pages and maybe substitute some of the drivel with a little about the syntax of VB or even some explanation of the example code. DON'T buy this book if you think it will teach you anything about computing or programming. DO buy this book if you have some other teaching reference for Visual Basic and want something that will help you setup your build environment. Also comes with a VB Express CD so you don't have to downloaded it.
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NEG

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Great Story, what's with the ending? . I love this story, I was loving it from page one up until the last comic. I mean here we have a great subtly running plot in Thorpe, Silver, and the deceased Doctor, but then suddenly in the last issue we see none of the three stories resolved. Yes, we are implied strongly that the doctor does away with thorpe, but that isnt good enough, what of Thorpe's Empire, how does Batman find out, and do we ever see the ghost again, maybe we don't, maybe we're better for it. But as for Silver, at least I was sad to see her walk away as yet another Superhero-girlfriend-itis casualty and not have anything more happen along the lines of her life in general, or Batman's general dealing with it. Anyways, at least these were just issues and not an intended mini-series, so all of these qualms are pretty much null and void. As a whole, ITS AN AWESOME STORY
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POS

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Excellent Book for Beginners and Experts . Once again, Tom Rosenbauer delivers a clearly-written, practical, and insightful book on fly-fishing. This time he looks at tying and gives many practical tips--especially on the use of tools and materials. For example, a beginner is hit with all these tools--which ones are best, which ones to use, etc. Rosenbauer gives clear descriptions of which tools are most useful, what they're used for, and which ones you don't really need. At the same time, he gives tips from his experience--also useful for the expert. The bulk of the book is, of course, the fly-tying receipes. He provides many photographs of each step in making a fly. The many photos are probably more than the expert will need, but very important for a beginner. For the expert, you get many great fly receipes. Overall, highly recommended fly-tying guide
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POS