Re: [Pgubook-readers] Introduction and question

[roger]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 22:31, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> 
> It's because I think that the other way has a bit of a confusing order to
> newcomers.  I think this is how they would more naturally think about it.
> Starting from this book, they have a lot of time to work on style and the
> "right" way of doing things.
> 

Right.  Keep it simple. Keep it easy.

> That brings me to something else that I've been pondering and I thought
> this would be a good time to ask.  What _is_ a good sequence of books and
> studies to bring a person who knows nothing about programming into a
> mature developer?  Obviously practice, but I'm also thinking about a
> sequence of books that would fill the gaps technically, philosophically,
> and stylistically.
> 
> The reason is that, eventually, I think it would be nice to have a
> "Programmer's Guild" which includes both mentoring and education, to lead
> new developers into maturity in a regular fashion.
> 
> Any ideas from the list?
> 
> Jon

I still stand by with my initial ideas.

I liked the book because it was small and I can easily read through and
actually spend time with all of the examples within a month or two
months of time.  If it were a big fat book, I would have just skimmed
through all of the material and spent little time on the examples.

Rather then having one big fat book that explains everything, I'm for a
series of books. ie 1) Beginners Linux ASM 2) Advanced/Mature Linux ASM

I thought enters into my mind, professors/teachers when looking for
course reading material, might easily overlook a larger Linux ASM book
as they may already have preferred reading material for their course. 
Keeping the books small, allows the professors/teachers to include
additional material while maintaining a stress free reading schedule for
students.

On my end, since I'm getting older, I sometimes really do not feel like
reading a book that can be used as a replacement for a cement block!

I am not an everyday ASM programmer, but I finally feel extremely that
if I were tasked with needing to program something in ASM or understand
a section of code, I could.


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Roger
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