Notebooks Aren't...
developer's notebookyou've
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.
won't find 100-page indices with every method
listed, and you won't 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?
more chapters before you even see any working code.
I'm not sure who has authors convinced that
it's good to keep a reader waiting this long, but
it's not anybody working on
this series. We believe that if
you're not coding within 10 pages,
something's 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.