Paperback: 582 pages
Publisher: Apress; 4th ed. edition (December 16, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1484207416
ISBN-13: 978-1484207413
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.4 x 10 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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At first glance the format of the book looks as usual as it can be, but when you take the book in your hand, you notice something is off. I was curious and I put this book against the others -- yep, the book is taller and narrower than "regular" book. I don't know why such change, but it makes reading harder because the inner margins are smaller, and around first 100 pages and last 100 pages you have to read in L position (of the book) -- i.e. you cannot put it flat (unless you don't mind cracking the binding).While I am at technical issues -- there is no syntax highlighting of the code (only the output is put in italics), and publisher is a huge fan of horizontal lines -- small snippet, comment, output, you name it, almost every page is slashed by horizontal lines. I didn't even realize how tiresome it is until I opened the next book I wanted to read (Real World OCaml: Functional programming for the masses by O'Reilly), it is from another publisher, it does not use any lines and the first thought that comes to mind is -- peace. My eyes can finally rest.Minor complain is quality of the typesetting, decades after inventing LaTeX, we still have to have text, where a word followed with colon looks like a squashed fly (example p.22). Oh, well... who cares about quality?Ok, the content -- it is pretty thorough and complete. Please note the level of this book though, it is focused on already experienced devs ("the gloves are off" -- just as an example, pipe operator "|>" is used from the beginning, but explained on p.46).
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