I mostly read Science Fiction books and books about Programming. My main fediverse account is @ryuslash@fosstodon.org
If I write a review about something, don't take it too seriously. I don't know what the heck I'm talking about anyway, it's all just opinions.
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A friend of mine recommended this to me for the Cycle system that's described in here because it helped them a lot. They deny recommending it to me (although actually might not deny this, they denied recommending the Cycle system to me, but once I started looking into that they did recommend I read this book), but of course now I have to judge their worth to me by seeing how applicable and good this book is.
The Book of Three (1964) is a high fantasy novel by American writer Lloyd Alexander, …
I haven't actually been reading this at all. My wife told me to read it when she was pregnant, but never actually had much time for it. I'll get back to it some other time, though, they all go in the queue.
As I posted a couple of days ago, this has been put on hold for now.
Oh I stopped reading this because I started reading "How to talk so little kids will listen", which I thought would be more relevant since my kids are young still.
This book was a really great read. It was hard for me to get through, but I'm really glad that I did in the end. I didn't do any of the exercises, because that would've meant I'd be reading it for the next 5 years most likely.
This book starts off with some very nice, but not uncommon ideas about writing flexible code. The initial example of writing a DSL in Scheme for regular expressions was really nice and engaging for me, but then after that it goes into combining arithmetics together. That is where I had some trouble, probably because I never actually got a Computer Science degree. It does have a few other nice examples that really struck home. And of course it is quite fun to see how a generic dispatch system is set up from scratch in Scheme, for example.
This book was a little bit …
This book was a really great read. It was hard for me to get through, but I'm really glad that I did in the end. I didn't do any of the exercises, because that would've meant I'd be reading it for the next 5 years most likely.
This book starts off with some very nice, but not uncommon ideas about writing flexible code. The initial example of writing a DSL in Scheme for regular expressions was really nice and engaging for me, but then after that it goes into combining arithmetics together. That is where I had some trouble, probably because I never actually got a Computer Science degree. It does have a few other nice examples that really struck home. And of course it is quite fun to see how a generic dispatch system is set up from scratch in Scheme, for example.
This book was a little bit too academic at times for my tastes, and its use of language was a bit out of my reach at times (I'm still not sure what degenerative algorithms are or what perturbing my data means). However I definitely got out of it what I was hoping to: It got my brain thinking about new possibilities and ways of organizing code and interactions. Perhaps the next time I read it I'll have a better grasp of some of the concepts explained in here.
I would probably recommend this book to people who aren't only interested in the practical side of programming, but are also interested in the theoretical side.
Really interesting read in the end. Though quite difficult to get through for me. I kept falling asleep as I was reading it.
After finishing the chapter about propagators I still feel like I understand what's going on somewhat conceptually, but I have no clue what's going on in the code. I'm interested in reading more practical examples of uses of propagators and keeping them in my head.
I haven't actually been reading it for a while. I openened it up right after I got it, but I don't have the space for it right now. I'm going to start over again soon, though. Just another book or two to get through.
Another 10 pages today. Propagators. I think I understand conceptually how they work, but the code in the examples is just too abstract for me to really see what's going on. I'm curious to learn more about them, though.
Reading this has been officially put on-hold until after September now, since half of my bookclub of 2 reading it (my sister-in-law and myself) have requested we do so :)
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The chapter about propagators is mostly going over my head, but I think I get some of it at least. It seems to me that, for some reason I don't understand, they decided to introduce the concept of what a propagator is and does partway into the chapter. So the first chapter where they just talk about using it was somewhat confusing because I feel like I had to infer a bunch of things.
I'm nearing the end. I've been trying really hard to get through it consistently by reading 10 pages every day, and it's been going very well.
Somehow the book is very interesting to me, but also every time I read it I have to really concentrate to stay awake... Although I've had that with all dead-tree books for quite a while now, but extra with this one.
Still, the subject matter is really interesting to me, I definitely like a lot of the ideas in it. But I would just really like it if it stopped with the combining arithmetics examples.
A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of …
A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction …
Very interesting, lots of fun anecdotes, many things for me to think about. I don't know how effective it'll actually be, or how well I'll be able to actually able to use these tools, but a lot of it resonates quite strongly with me. Very much enjoyed reading this book.
A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction …
Some of the anecdotes in this book are really touching.
Love the name and cover.