- Lectures
We donât let just anyone write a developerâs notebookâyouâve got to be a bona fide programmer, and preferably one who stays up a little too late coding. While full-time writers, academics, and theorists are great in some areas, these books are about programming in the trenches, and are filled with instruction, not lecture.
- Filled with Conceptual Drawings and Class Hierarchies
This isnât a nutshell (there, we said it). You wonât find 100-page indices with every method listed, and you wonât see full-page UML diagrams with methods, inheritance trees, and flow charts. What you will find is page after page of source code. Are you starting to sense a recurring theme?
- Long on Explanation, Light on Application
It seems that many programming books these days have three, four, or more chapters before you even see any working code. Iâm not sure who has authors convinced that itâs good to keep a reader waiting this long, but itâs not anybody working on this series. We believe that if youâre not coding within ten pages, somethingâs wrong. These books are also chock-full of practical application, taking you from an example in a book to putting things to work on your job, as quickly as possible.
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