ciaopaulo
September 5th, 2009, 07:24 AM
*sigh*
So I'm half way through Hortons book and I'm starting to lose the will to live.
I'm not a total beginner, I used to write code a while back, but it was all generally electronics/low level stuff. Now I'm a bit rusty, and wanted to learn some of the "higher" level bits, especially the visual elements.
I'm finding Horton an utter bore. He teaches the how but not the why, and I often find myself sitting down to write code and realising that I've picked up nothing from that days reading. The meshing of the MS element into every chapter just confuses me more, I'm effectively learning two languages at once, and he seems to just drop random elements into chapters that have little to no relevence. Plus his jokes are lame.*
So can anyone recommend a book that has better intuition and sensible structure to it. Plus some good writing wouldn't go amiss.
Ta,
Paul
*but that's maybe excusable since all computer science teachers crack bad jokes.
So I'm half way through Hortons book and I'm starting to lose the will to live.
I'm not a total beginner, I used to write code a while back, but it was all generally electronics/low level stuff. Now I'm a bit rusty, and wanted to learn some of the "higher" level bits, especially the visual elements.
I'm finding Horton an utter bore. He teaches the how but not the why, and I often find myself sitting down to write code and realising that I've picked up nothing from that days reading. The meshing of the MS element into every chapter just confuses me more, I'm effectively learning two languages at once, and he seems to just drop random elements into chapters that have little to no relevence. Plus his jokes are lame.*
So can anyone recommend a book that has better intuition and sensible structure to it. Plus some good writing wouldn't go amiss.
Ta,
Paul
*but that's maybe excusable since all computer science teachers crack bad jokes.