From: Alex Combas <alex.combas@...>
Date: 2006-01-20T18:23:30+09:00
Subject: Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice)

I'm working through the book myself
but I personally find it a little tedious.
Its not a bad book so far, but I would
have to rate it just so-so compared to
other programming books I've read.

One way I think it can improve is
by having unified source code for programs.
They seem to have this style that they
show a little piece of a program, then another
piece a few pages later, then another piece
maybe even a few chapters later... its really
frustrating not being able to get a program
to run because its code is scattered across
half the book.

I would upgrade my rating from so-so to good
if they would unify more of the source code
in the next version of the book.

Just my $0.02 :)


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Alex Combas
http://noodlejunkie.blogspot.com/