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Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
$34.95
This book is a regurgitation of O'Reilly web material. This book had a real opportunity to discuss Ant internals or at least something that can't be found on tech sites or the software documentation. Project wikis will undoubtedly replace the need for tech books of this sort.

NOVA: Ants - Little Creatures Who Run the World
$19.95
A bit disappointed.. I expected more. it is good but not excellent. I cannot use it as a reference.

Ant in Action: Covers Ant 1.7 (Manning)
$49.99
Ant in Action" might end up being a good reference book but only after you learn ANT and this book is not the best as far as helping you learn ANT.

I was very frustrated with isolated example code that was not explained at all. Ant's syntax is not the most straight forward so explanations would have helped.


I would give this book a two star rating at most - for what I paid for the book I expected a lot more.

The Life and Times of the Ant
$6.95
My son is not an insect person. But I looked at this book and found it very funny and very clever. The worker ants wear construction helmets, the queen wears a tiara, you get the idea. I brought it home from the library with a bunch of other books on sea life and outer space, my son's usual topics. After initially rejecting the Ant book, he picked it up and then couldn't put it down. We ended up buying it. He loves it. He takes it in the car and is now full of all kinds of fun facts about ants. He has even become interested in bees and other insects as a result. Who knew. Just goes to show you that a funny and clever presentation can get a kid interested in just about anything.