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| Book: | Learning PHP and MySQL | |
| Subject: | Slogging through it | |
| Date: | 2007-04-24 12:14:01 | |
| From: | barry | |
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Rating:
 
I, too, have read and recommended the O'Reilly series as the best for all levels of novice and expert. However, this book is poorly written/edited, and I don't just mean technically. Aside from many code errors, the sentences themselves are often awkward and confusing. I've only read a few chapters so far, but I'm slogging through it because I want the information that the book promises, and there seem to be other readers who have gotten something out of it. Fortunately, I know enough to be able to tell when the book is being confusing. I would feel bad for a beginner to pick up the book and feel that the subject is too hard to understand, when it's really the language and organization of the information that is hard to understand. I compare it especially to the last O'Reilly book I just read, "Learning SQL", which was clear, concise, friendly, and moved along nicely from topic to topic. This current book seems to jump around from place to place, where each coding example doesn't follow from the one before it. I'm hoping that the book may be redeemed by some of its later chapters. |
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