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This is one of the prettiest online books about computing that I've ever seen. I really appreciate how much effort you have put in to making the layout clean an

• munificent 9y ago
  Thank you! I used to be a graphic designer and web designer before I went more left brain. I put a lot of love and time into the design. It's fully responsive, which is nice, but the part I really like is that the whole page fits into an invisible grid system. All of the columns, line heights, spacing between paragraphs, everything (well, except the illustrations...). It took forever, but I think it helps give the page a harmonious visual cadence. > Great visual presentation can really take a load off the reader's brain, leaving more cycles to think about the actual content. Bravo! Yes, I totally agree. Design is how we get information through our physical senses into our brain. There's no shortcut to skip past the eyes and ears, so you have to put care into the transmission medium if you want the signal to get through effectively.
  • acqq 9y ago
    I was especially glad to see the carefully hand-drawn diagrams. Thanks for that.
  • Kagerjay 9y ago
    What are you using to do put the code snippets up? Some parts are greyed out but the most important points stand out Ive been looking for something like hightlightjs that does this, otherwise i intended forking my own version of it and using | | piping to highlight important snippets