This book was well written but was definately NOT for beginners and covered very little on mIRC and scripting with that client. This book is mostly for programmers familiar with python and java. There was also lots of info in reguards to unix and linux. I was hoping that this book would have been more beginner friendly and give some handy hacks for mIRC for windows platforms. Needless to say, I wouldnt recommend this book for any begginers or windows users. I feel that I wasted my money on this book.