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That's a good point about textbooks. Do you find that if a book includes Exercises at the end of each chapter that you actually do them? That's been a big chall
by swanson 15y ago
That's a good point about textbooks. Do you find that if a book includes Exercises at the end of each chapter that you actually do them? That's been a big challenge for me - so many great books have 'Action' sections but I rarely find myself putting down the book and doing them.
- jrockway 15y agoI am willing to do exercises if the answer is in the back of the book. Programming Pearls did a good job in this respect.
- biesnecker 15y agoThis is a problem I frequently have. A while ago I decided to try to read through the whole book, and then go through and do the exercises. When I actually did it it worked _really_ well, but I found myself not being honest with myself and skimping on the review.
- billswift 15y agoThat depends on whether I am reading for information or actually trying to learn technique. If you are trying to learn to actually do something, you need to get practice somehow. My list of things I want to learn eventually is divided into two parts - things I want to learn about and things I want to learn to do.