No, I disagree with most of this. A LTHW book covers just enough of the language that someone could then go learn the things you mention from another book. At

No, I disagree with most of this. A LTHW book covers just enough of the language that someone could then go learn the things you mention from another book. At the end you could lightly cover testing, but most people can barely get an editor installed. No way they can learn multi-threading, TDD, an entire project, and an RCS. It'd also dilute the focus of the book.