Dan's Book

John Tenny jtenny at willamette.edu
Fri Feb 6 09:35:21 EST 2004


I fully agree - great starter book. When is volume 2 anticipated?

Peace,   John
On Feb 6, 2004, at 2:35 AM, Robert Hartley wrote:

> Hi All.
>
> OK I''m a rev newbie and indeed new to programming. I previously 
> trawled our library for books on languages to learn (and the www). I 
> looked at real basic and bought a book. Goodness me, how it put me 
> off.
>
> I bought rev express and Dan Shaefer's (hope the spelling is OK) book 
> and got round to reading it last night.
>
> AT LAST!!!!!!  A BOOK THAT IS IN-DEPTH ENOUGH, BUT ALSO FOR THE 
> NEWBIE. :-)
>
> I am sick of books that say things like "OK lets learn codeing"; 
> simply stick stribng a with parameterb with inverted backflipc and you 
> get a congealed output. Did you understand that sentence? No I bet you 
> didn't, nor do many that read books on their first language.
>
> However, Dan's book is great. He says things like "hey guys! want to 
> add a counter to a stack?" Hmmm let me see do this, then try this, 
> then play with this and hey presto!, you have what you want.
>
>
> Dear Dan.
> 10/10, 100%, 5 gold stars etc. THE best beginners computer book I have 
> ever encountered.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dr. Bob
>
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