Arthur wrote: > The author communicates respect for his audience. He says things once. > Even hard things. It doesn't mean he expects me to get it on reading it > once, but we understand each other I think - there is nothing stopping me > from reading it five or six times if I need to. Him repeating himself is > not going to help - because he has already said it the best way he could > find to say it. Saying it a second time, he could only be saying it a > second best way.
Some day when you are feeling ambitious, take a gander at Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming." Reading Knuth is hard; he writes well but succinctly. A twenty-page assignment is a huge chunk of text. But none of is wrong, or hand-holding, or repetitious. The one thing you might not expect is that the answers to exercises sections includes ideas only mentioned in that section. I think of reading TAOCP as reading poetry; you read a bit, reflect a lot, and then read a bit more. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig