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Pros
The author is concise and dry - but not lifeless. There are a few typos throughout the book, but it's more about the information that's inside than just a few misspelled words or grammatical errors.
He makes programming easy and understandable. It help to see coherent understanding of what takes to produce a functional software.
Nathan clark delivers once again. Clark's writing is a quite lucid and unbiased guide. He also offers sampling from his buffet of books available to help.
This book gives you the rough landscape of past and current computing and how different programing languages, methodology, and implementation fits into our computing infrastructure. The author communicates the mindset behind programming, laying the gr... Read More
Cons
I enjoy learning and this book was definitely not enjoyable. From the very beginning, terms need to be defined--especially for a beginner--and they're not. Has some decent info but really does not teach much on how to really do anything great.
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So far i have been pleased with the read
I picked up this ebook looking for a good resource for new hires and was very happily surprised with the depth and knowledge w... Read More
My expertise is in business analysis quality assurance and project management
Asfar as i am concerned if the author of a beginners guide makes it easy to understand he has done hisjob
Price
This approach however has cost me a lot of sunk cost in frustration time and money with a current project
Competitiveness
Nathan clarks books are easy to use intuitive and a great asset in anyones howto library
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- This product had a total of 462 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 9 2023.
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I am not a tech guy but wanted to learn more
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I wanted to have a holistic view of software development
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There is not just one way to program
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Thank you for making this book
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Instead it guides the reader from a day 1 perspective
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There is not much of the actual work but it is more of the understanding of programming
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I found that to be somewhat confusing
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A general idea of what programming is about
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