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Seconding this opinion. Haven't read Graham Hutton's book, but LYAH was just really poorly structured IMO. Some chapters are really basic and easy to read (lik
by wgerard 8y ago
Seconding this opinion. Haven't read Graham Hutton's book, but LYAH was just really poorly structured IMO.
Some chapters are really basic and easy to read (like the chapter on recursion), and others are insanely dense and thick and basically unintelligible the first time through (like the chapter on functors).
We tried reading it for a book club once, and the weeks with the easy chapters there was no discussion to be had and the weeks with the difficult chapters ended up being "did anyone understand any of this?" and trying to figure it out together - which was somewhat helpful, but the book just really ended up being an excuse for us to learn together and not a resource in and of itself.