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Title: Almost worthless as a textbook
Review: The book relies heavily on explaining concepts through the examples outlined. So heavily, in fact, that trying to understand a single concept is almost impossible without reading the book as a whole.To use it, you kind of have to read it cover to cover--novel style. This is rarely a useful way to approach technical learning, and other books do much better with alternate approaches.
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