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Only worked through a part of it, but left a pretty good impression. Writing style was pleasant to read, sometimes imagined it read in Bob Ross' voice. Only Scr
by punchclockhero 8y ago
Only worked through a part of it, but left a pretty good impression. Writing style was pleasant to read, sometimes imagined it read in Bob Ross' voice. Only Scratch has a shorter "zero to moving pictures" time. The language manual is so tightly integrated with the book it doesn't leave a single character of code unexplained (I've read beginner's books that never explained "+=" while using it in code samples). My only nitpick is that the design recipe wasn't sufficiently explained and it finally clicked when I tried the edx course based on the first part of HtDP, which has its own problems like a plodding pace and unchallenging excercises. All in all a great beginner's book.
- philonoist 8y agoCould you please link me the EDX course site? I am not able to find it. Coursera scrapped it's 2015 version
- punchclockhero 8y agoSeems to be a newer version of what I did, so my gripes might be fixed. https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-simple-data-ubcx-htc1x https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-simple-data-ubcx-htc1x