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Re:The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble by watwut on Friday February 16, 2018 @08:00AM (#16391994)
I can see how most books would not be interesting to you, but why would they be "not appropriate"? What does the word appropriate means in this context?
Re:The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble by hluska on Friday February 16, 2018 @08:26AM (#16392133)
We're talking over two threads here and I went into this in another comment.

To answer it succinctly, I'll use the programming language example that I used.

Let's say that you have never programmed before, so you come to me for help. I start teaching you. The first lesson, I teach you how to output "hello world". The second lesson, I teach you about monads. Honestly, how do you think you'd do?

There isn't anything absolutely wrong about monads, but I'd tend to argue that they're a little too advanced for someone who only knows how to output "hello world". In this example, I'd say that teaching you about monads in the second lesson was inappropriate - you likely won't gain from it, in fact, it's more likely that learning about monads too soon will actually hurt your progress.