From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-02-28T23:34:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Learn to Program -- A Tutorial for the Future Programmer

Chris Pine wrote:

> http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
> Hope you like it,

Definitely. This is very nice and I'm sure I'll use it in the future -- 
are there any plans for translations yet? I could maybe do one to German.

Oh, and in chapter 4 where you're referring to the inaccurateness of 
Floats the example shows the precisely correct -8.05. Maybe it would be 
better to move this hint to the "More Arithmetic" section in Chapter 5?

More nitpicking:

In Chapter 5:
- "(I added the *parenthases* to the other lines to get rid of all the 
warnings it was giving me.)" -- Typo
- "One thing to be wary of, though: rand  will complain if you try to 
give it a number greater than 2147483647  (which happens to be 2**31 - 
1)." -- This seems to have been fixed. (Works in 1.8.1 for me.)

In Chapter 10:
- You're doing this:
       isEven = !isEven  #  Toggle from even to odd, or odd to even.
   You haven't explained "!", but you did explain "not". (And "not" does
   also look better IMHO.) So it would probably be better to use "not"
   instead.

Comments seem to be a bit hard to read. (They're white on gray.)

Regards,
Florian Gross