Brian Overland is a textbook author sometime actor programmer film reviewer and novelist. He has been professionally programming with the C family of languages since the early 1980s and spent 10 years at Microsoft first as a software tester and then as programmer/writer manager and project lead. Almost unique among programmers he is an award-winning writer deeply committed to teaching and simplifying advanced concepts. You can read his comments on technology reviews and his upcoming book projects at brianoverland. com. John Bennett was formerly a senior software engineer at Proximity Technology Franklin Electronic Publishing and Microsoft Corporation. More recently he has developed new programming languages using Python as a prototyping tool. He has worked on a variety of software projects including a handheld spellchecker and East Asian handwriting recognition software. He holds nine U. S. patents. . Language: English