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As quirky as all the pictures and thought bubbles are

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It is likely to be annoying to more experienced programmers and some chapters despite being very gentle will definitely not be accessible to people who have never written code before

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Then he iterates his solution several times each time introducing a new concept until by the end of the chapter the problem is solved correctly and several key points are introduced

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Yet in one chapter—chapter 6 easily the most complicated in the book about hash return values—the technique was strained to the breaking point because it was actually harder to understand why the fictional beginning coder thought a certain piece of code would do a certain thing than is was to understand why the correct code works

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Another problem was that in an effort to keep code snippets short and clear sometimes they were rather boring and unrealistic and i wondered if i was learning something that would have realworld application

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There was one thing that i found to be seriously lacking overall and that is exercises and problems to solve

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Some books that have examples of such problems include think java by downey and mayfield and elements of programming with perl by johnson probably out of print