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Re:Itsy Bitsy Data Structures – Simplified examples of many ... by posterboy on Saturday August 27, 2016 @02:33PM (#12373536)
I didn't read it, because I know the topic already, but also because I found it too long for an overview. If the crowd with reduced attention span is your target group, this doesn't work. This would amount to a 20 pages perhaps. I'd assume that's roughly how much it would need in the 600 page book, too.

Also, there is no TOC to gloss over, the ascii, cute as it is, is harder to fly over than legit text with embedded code snippets.

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Re:Itsy Bitsy Data Structures – Simplified examples of many ... by thejameskyle on Saturday August 27, 2016 @04:45PM (#12374088)
It perfectly matches up with a 30 minute talk that I gave yesterday. It's meant to be read sequentially not as a reference. It's helped a lot of people already, and this format has worked in the past: the super tiny compiler has been turned into interactive tutorials and even recommended by professors. People love the format and I think it connects with people better.

But then again I don't know why you thought your opinion mattered if you didn't even read it. I guess that is the quality feedback I do expect from Hacker News commentors though.

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