This Book Breaks the Sacred Rule of Computer Books
Really?
Absolutely. It’s a time-honored tradition that all computer books make you (the reader) wait until everything has been explained fully, in great detail, before you’re allowed to do anything.
In fact, many books make you start by reading chapters on the history of computing, followed by in-depth looks at how computers work, and what a “bit” and a “byte” are, and blah, blah, blah—all before they let you do anything. I call these “tell-me-all-about-it” books.
But this book breaks that mold. It’s a “show-me-how-to-do-it” book, so instead of explaining all that junk that most people don’t really care about, I show you, right from the beginning, step-by-step how to do the things you bought ...
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