Title: Examples as teaching aid is not good pedagogy
Review: Many people seem to like learning through examples. In programming books, readers crave for complete code. If you like learning by examples, this is the book for you. This book introduces finite state machines by giving the sequence recognizer example. This is poor pedagogy. A formal definition is needed, such as M = (S, I, O, f, g, s). Such a definition provides the student with a structure to design. By learning from an example, students have to try to find the structure, therefore one example is often not enough. This is why people crave for examples. If only authors could give a general overview and structure before jumping into business... I give this one star because of this "common" poor pedagogy problem.
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