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Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages by Bruce A. Tate
glanotte's review
4.0
This was a fun book to work through. I felt like the author did a good job of relating each programming language. You not only got the nut and bolts, but you got the history and philosophy of the language for that week.
I felt that the real strength for the book were the exercises. They were usually just a bit beyond what was just covered which pushed me to work to answer them and when I did that, those concepts were more firmly cemented. It reminded me very much of Zed Shaw's Learn x the Hard Way books.
My only negative for this book was that each chapter was divided into three "days" but the time investment for one of those varied for me from anywhere ot 1 hour to 3 or more hours. I should add that I typed every line of code and did most exercises. If I had done them all, the experience would have been more exaggerated. My only hope here is that the days were a little more even.
In the end, I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to explore new programming languages. The languages chosen here were a good deal of fun and I expect to be digging more into at least two of them.
I felt that the real strength for the book were the exercises. They were usually just a bit beyond what was just covered which pushed me to work to answer them and when I did that, those concepts were more firmly cemented. It reminded me very much of Zed Shaw's Learn x the Hard Way books.
My only negative for this book was that each chapter was divided into three "days" but the time investment for one of those varied for me from anywhere ot 1 hour to 3 or more hours. I should add that I typed every line of code and did most exercises. If I had done them all, the experience would have been more exaggerated. My only hope here is that the days were a little more even.
In the end, I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to explore new programming languages. The languages chosen here were a good deal of fun and I expect to be digging more into at least two of them.
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