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Book:   Head First Design Patterns
Subject:   Disappointing
Date:   2008-11-17 23:39:04
From:   Doug
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

Head First books are in a rut. They're in the same vein, but definitely not as cool, as the old Classic Comics. Slick marketing, though. Head First is mining latest "brain science" fad. Maybe they are on to something---hot chicks looking up at you is certainly more marketable that the usual antique etching of a vanishing species.


For a good example of how a book should be written, look no further than O'Reilly's very own "Javascript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford.

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