This is the worst computing book I have read in a long time. Making a book an "intro for beginners" should not become a pretext for loosely and incompThis is the worst computing book I have read in a long time. Making a book an "intro for beginners" should not become a pretext for loosely and incompletely touching, in what appears like a semi random fashion, on the concepts of the language. Targeting it for beginners relieve the author of any moral obligation to make connections with other similar concepts from other languages, and calling it an intro gives him a convenient way to get away with a less that thorough review of these concepts. A really really bad book IMHO that I can't recommend for any circumstance (except perhaps as one of these books we use to raise our monitors and forget all about). ...more