More stuff added to ch 2 of my programming intro

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* Mensanator:
> On Dec 16, 5:45 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al... at start.no> wrote:
>> * Mensanator:
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>>> On Dec 16, 4:41 pm, Mensanator <mensana... at aol.com> wrote:
>>>> On Dec 14, 1:23 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al... at start.no> wrote:
>>>>> * Alf P. Steinbach:
>>>>>>   Format: PDF
>>>>>>   <url:http://preview.tinyurl.com/ProgrammingBookP3>
>>>>>> The new stuff, section 2.7, is about programs as simulations and
>>>>>> handling data, focusing on modeling things. It includes some Python GUI
>>>>>> programming. The plan is to discuss containers like lists and
>>>>>> dictionaries in perhaps two more subsections of 2.7, but I'm not quite
>>>>>> sure about how to approach that or exactly how much to cover, since the
>>>>>> intent of ch 2 is to introduce mostly general concepts and enable the
>>>>>> reader to try out (more or less) interesting things.
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> - Alf
>>>>>> PS: comments welcome!
>>>>> Well, I posted the current doc. It has a not yet quite complete section 2.7.7
>>>>> about arrays, and that will be the last subsection of the chapter.  I thought
>>>>> using the Josephus circle problem as example was pretty neat... :-)
>>>>> But anyway, comments welcome, even if that last section's not yet finished.
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> - Alf
>>>>> PS: Oh, I changed the manuscript title to "Intelligent Person's Intro to
>>>>> Programming"  --  is that good?
>>>> Sure. After all, "Idiot's Guide to Programming" and "Programming for
>>>> Dummies" are probably already taken, albeit more appropriate
>>> Oh, and about Chapter 1.
>>> If you're going to use version 3.1.1 as your standard, shouldn't
>>> you also point out that 3.1.1 is NOT bundled with Mac OS X?
>>> How about devoting a section on downloading the source files
>>> and compiling it on a Mac?
>> Learn to read.
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>> At the top of every second page it tells you that this is an introduction based
>> on Windows.
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> Still, no excuse for giving out mis-information. It's just as easy
> to get these things right.

Why are you not concrete?

I'd be glad to hear of any concrete mis-information or inaccuracy; that's much 
of the point of asking for public feedback (did you even think about that?).

Unfortunately one then also get responses from trolls, small kids, idiots, etc..



Cheers,

- Alf