Brian Overland
Autor de C Without Fear: A Beginner's Guide That Makes You Feel Smart (2nd Edition)
Sobre El Autor
Brian Overland has considerable experience programming with C++ and teaching basic techniques to others
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As with most computer languages, there are a ton out there. This might make one ask “Why this language and not that one?” Overland explains why Python might be a good choice for what you want to do. While he does praise the language pretty extensively, Overland does admit that Python is not without flaws. A lot of these are instances that might not occur for a beginner.
I really like this book for several reasons. It told me how to use IDLE to greater effect, for instance. Like when I make a mistake, it told me that I didn’t have to retype the whole thing which is great. I didn’t want to use IDLE for exactly that reason, but now I don’ t have that excuse anymore. The book has little snippets of code that you can run in IDLE. It has exercises that have you change small portions of code to achieve a different result. Say you have a line of code that changes Celsius to Fahrenheit or vice versa. You can personalize it and have it say which measure is which.
Programming in itself is a skill that you develop by doing. This is another reason that I like this book. All of the books I have on programming do the same, but I suppose I really like how the author includes the format of the language. Take the idea of whitespace, this is something that doesn’t happen for a programmer in C or C or a lot of other languages. Overland takes time to talk about standards of Syntax as well, which might be helpful to Intermediate Programmers. As I said, I am not really a programmer and some of the thought processes required are a bit unusual to me.
Other than that, the book also contains little asides that deepen understanding, or ways to optimize what you made. My only real issue is that I need a setup that can allow me to look at the book without setting it on my knee. It is a real challenge to look from it to what is happening.
Other than that, there really isn’t much to complain about for this book. It has a lot to like and not much to dislike.… (más)