Re: Request For Reviewers

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:33:25 +0200, "Kristofer Skaug"
<nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But if the author's point really cannot be made without a multi-page chunk
of source code, then you've actually got a "how-to" course which cannot be done efficiently away from a
computer anyhow.

Sometimes people have to have the examples to learn. I notice,
regarding myself in going through the Win32 documentation (an
example), that I get confused a lot of times and have to have an
example to be able to understand what is going on. On the same token,
I find I understand source by itself very little (The SWAG archive
being a good example there) because I need the explanations of what
each unfamiliar line is doing.

I think a book to be less credible without source to be able to relate
to and understand, but shouldn't use source as a substitution for
adequately explaining the topic.
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