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Turns out my misgivings were fairly well founded. The book is well written in parts and is in a good understandable English style. But unfortunately the authors skip through far too quickly, only skimming over the details of what you are actually doing.

Most paragraphs end in "...do this for now without understanding what you've just done, and I'll tell you later what you've done.". The final explanation of what you have done never seems to materialise, but on the times that it does, you're so far ahead you can’t remember what is being explained anyway (never mind the fact that you now have another 3 promises for explanations to keep track of in your head).

I struggle to who this book is positioned at. Certainly not for beginners due to its fast and superficial pace, and too simple for advanced developers. SO its targeted at an intermediate developer then? Well, no. Why would an intermediate developer (who has presumably gone through easier beginner books to become an intermediate developer) need to get "Up and Running" as this books claims to do for you?

Disappointing book.