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aemilova's review against another edition
2.0
I like the idea but I'm finding it too repetitive for me and so I really ain't feeling it, I'll defenetly give it another shot in the future though.
stephang18's review against another edition
3.0
Some interesting computer algorithms for real life. The book is aimed at junior readers.
sprinkledwithwords's review against another edition
2.0
I feel like this book had a good concept, but it wasn't carried out particularly well.
I read this book because I thought that it would help me to rearrange my life and learn something new about how to live more economically. I was interested to learn about putting algorithms into my life... but I was actually pretty disappointed.
This book seemed like it had a good idea backing it, but each of the chapters were just, it seemed to me at least... common sense?
for example, one of the scenarios was, "A woman is an average size, and she is looking for clothes. Does she start at one end of the clothes rail, or in the middle?" I mean, obviously, this is in the middle. If you have clothing from size 6 - 22, and this woman is size 14, she is naturally going to look in the middle. Most of these algorithms seemed to be like this, and it really frustrated me.
A lot of this seemed to be common sense, so I wouldn't actually recommend this book. Perhaps another writer could carry this idea on, because, also, this book is really small and way (in my opinion!) too expensive. If this was carried on, I think this could be a really interesting book but at the time of me reading it, it really wasn't. The idea is good, but it wasn't carried through!
Thanks so much to the publisher for sending me a copy of this book to review!
I read this book because I thought that it would help me to rearrange my life and learn something new about how to live more economically. I was interested to learn about putting algorithms into my life... but I was actually pretty disappointed.
This book seemed like it had a good idea backing it, but each of the chapters were just, it seemed to me at least... common sense?
for example, one of the scenarios was, "A woman is an average size, and she is looking for clothes. Does she start at one end of the clothes rail, or in the middle?" I mean, obviously, this is in the middle. If you have clothing from size 6 - 22, and this woman is size 14, she is naturally going to look in the middle. Most of these algorithms seemed to be like this, and it really frustrated me.
A lot of this seemed to be common sense, so I wouldn't actually recommend this book. Perhaps another writer could carry this idea on, because, also, this book is really small and way (in my opinion!) too expensive. If this was carried on, I think this could be a really interesting book but at the time of me reading it, it really wasn't. The idea is good, but it wasn't carried through!
Thanks so much to the publisher for sending me a copy of this book to review!
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