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David Griffiths (2)

Autore di Head First C

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I felt some conflict over how to rate this. The gimmicky BS, sprawling waste of my time and money in its conceptual repetitiveness, and ADHD-oriented antipedagogical style is worth a two-star rating at best, and some of the author's inherent biases might edge it down to being worth less than one star. The way it focuses on the pragmatic necessities of writing C programs for a variety of purposes, starting with the simple basics that make it easy to get started on writing small and useful utilities for one's own daily use, on the other hand, was a refreshing change of pace from the utter failure of every other C book I've encountered to do so. In fact, this book covered some of the material that every C programmer should learn, but pretty much no books ever teach.

I ended up giving it two stars, because no matter how nice it is to find a book that covers the topics this book covers, it's just not right to give a book so badly written and formatted an even marginally good rating. It's still worth reading for the information in it, once you get past the highly distracting whirlwind of nonsense and conga line of dancing pigs.

edit: I suppose it should not surprise me that, as of this edit, there are only three other readers who have bothered to give it a review, and one of them is a duplicate of another that is essentially a contentless one-liner. A book written for people with pathologically short attention spans and a need for faddish gimmicks to keep them interested would not, generally, seem like the kind of thing to elicit thoughtful reviews even from those who liked it.
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apotheon | Dec 14, 2020 |
Livro muito bom, mas é pra quem sabe pelo menos o básico de programação. O autor usa o Python nos exemplos, apesar dele dizer que não é um livro sobre Python, eu tenho minhas dúvidas.
 
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pauloandre | 1 altra recensione | Apr 29, 2011 |
Save your money. I'm a fan of the Head First books, but this one fails to deliver. Poorly presented, the book makes too many assumptions and leaps. I'm not sure who they had in mind as the audience, but they say it was for beginners, and that just ain't so. The only reason I haven't sent it back for a refund is that I want to keep it as an example of how not to write a book on programming (or anything else, for that matter).
 
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ricgerace | 1 altra recensione | Feb 11, 2010 |
I have a *ton* of Rails books, and I have to say that this one has probably done the most to help me really start to wrap my head around how Rails works.

I've been a big fan of the Head Start series ever since I picked up their book on XHTML & CSS. Even though I pretty much knew all the material in that book, I liked reading it because the explanatory approach is just fun to go through.

With this Rails book, it's still fun, but more importantly, it's *memorable*. There must be something to all that mumbo-jumbo about neuroscience and whatnot behind the Head First series.

Ideas and techniques are introduced, and then re-introduced in a different way. Also, unlike the 'standard' Rails book, "Agile Web Development with Rails," this book has a whole bunch of different applications, a new one every chapter or two. By the end of AWDWR, I was sick of the "Depot" application. This book kept my interest up.
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snifty | Jan 30, 2009 |

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