I love this book! I bought the physical copy years ago and it has frequently been a go-to book of mine. So many tech books (not all, of course) either do a grea

I love this book! I bought the physical copy years ago and it has frequently been a go-to book of mine. So many tech books (not all, of course) either do a great job of theory but are of little immediate, practical value or they are "cookbook" style and give you lots of useful tidbits but fail to help you grasp the big picture. While there are valid reasons for both of these approaches, of course, this gem is one of the few that are able to do both in one text. You learn a new computer language in the first part, and as soon as you have a foundation in the basics, you immediately jump into practical applications that can benefit your life almost immediately. Very well done, IMHO.