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>>Hi,
>>
>>For several years now (maybe even longer :)) I completely cannot motivate myself to read technical books.
>>I read tons of non-technical: biographies, thrillers, romance novels, non-fiction, etc. etc. But I can't make myself read technical stuff.
>>I get emails of these "short" technical books from Syncfusion. They are free and succinct but I still don't even open them.
>>
>>Am I the only one who is that bad?
>
>As Dragan said, they're generally awful.
>Books by Deitel and our Tamar Granor are shining exceptions- to the point with great examples- but in general the level of most tech writing is terrible.
>Recently I bought an E book on PHP.
>That author would lead you through a torturous example and then after I had spent several hours with it he'd say "That's one way to do it, but not the best way"
I agree that the VFP books were very good. But then again, that was the time when I/we was/were learning the stuff that we were using every day. Now, the new stuff, is mostly to "complement" our work. And I tend to forget what little I learned, and go in circles.
>>
>>For several years now (maybe even longer :)) I completely cannot motivate myself to read technical books.
>>I read tons of non-technical: biographies, thrillers, romance novels, non-fiction, etc. etc. But I can't make myself read technical stuff.
>>I get emails of these "short" technical books from Syncfusion. They are free and succinct but I still don't even open them.
>>
>>Am I the only one who is that bad?
>
>As Dragan said, they're generally awful.
>Books by Deitel and our Tamar Granor are shining exceptions- to the point with great examples- but in general the level of most tech writing is terrible.
>Recently I bought an E book on PHP.
>That author would lead you through a torturous example and then after I had spent several hours with it he'd say "That's one way to do it, but not the best way"
I agree that the VFP books were very good. But then again, that was the time when I/we was/were learning the stuff that we were using every day. Now, the new stuff, is mostly to "complement" our work. And I tend to forget what little I learned, and go in circles.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham