Re:A Hacker Writes a Children's Book
by arthurjj on Friday December 08, 2017 @11:19AM
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Glad to hear you like the rhymes. Your right, some of the words are a advanced for a little kid. Many of them were just so I could tell my son "The Garbage Collector was too slow today"(I work in Java) or "I had to shave a yak today."
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I like a couple of the rhymes, perhaps it's just me, but most of them don't scan properly. Mind you I find this is a common complaint for me, perhaps my rhythm is off.
Example: Debugging should have "to figure out just // what has gone wrong".
That said I doubt that's much of a bar to sales.
To me it's a novelty book "A Programming ABC" that people (probably non-programmers) would buy as a gift. The artwork is amazing IMO.
As a teaching resource it seems more like a pile of quirky chapter pages that would preceed in depth descriptions.
I wonder if the pages would work as merchandise, or just framed artwork.