2 ms·
Would I buy the author a beer at a con, yes, so I dropped $3 at amazon for the kindle version. That's about what its worth. Problems: 1) Is it for noobs or t
by VLM 13y ago
Would I buy the author a beer at a con, yes, so I dropped $3 at amazon for the kindle version. That's about what its worth.
Problems:
1) Is it for noobs or the guy learning his 10th language? Starts with "what is a file, what is a folder, what is a text editor". Then leaps into a very matter of fact "and this is how you do recursion". So a noob is going to be totally lost after the first chapters and an old timer is going to be pretty bored with the "what is a folder" level stuff.
2) Strange text encoding errors on the site. ... Bullet point "Strings are" a-hat (as in a with top hat, not ahat) lowercase-epsilon c-concat-e "indexed" a-hat epsilon "starting at 0 not 1" ... current firefox if that matters (which it absolutely shouldn't)
Other than that, its a pretty good intro level book, like I wrote I'd "buy the author a beer" level of goodness.
- mrcarrot 13y agoI'm also seeing the weird text encoding stuff in OS X Chrome. For example: "of information – everything"
- jrabone 13y agoIt's UTF-8 being interpreted as raw bytes: "a-hat" is the 0x80 marker byte. A common fail is forgetting that Microsoft Word auto-corrects straight quotes (which are in ASCII) to curly double quotes (which need Unicode), and serving the resulting text as CP1252 or ASCII or some such. UTF-8 / GMT / ISO8601 people. It's (should be) law.