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Title: This book is extremely difficult to learn from.
Review: The problem with this book is that the author expects the reader to remember EVERYTHING that was covered in previous chapters. For instance, if he is asking the reader to program a complex program in chapter 10 he will skip over many major programming steps (that were covered somewhere in the previous 9 chapters). The result is that the reader is constantly fishing through previous chapters thinking "where did I see that explained before?" I spent hours searching for such details. It gets worse and worse as the book progresses. Eventually you reach the point where it's too much work, and you decide to retire this book and look for a better book.
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