Re:Critique: "Programming Collective Intelligence"
by bockris on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @10:18AM
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While I agree with your assessment, IMO you don't seem to be the target audience.
I loved PCI because it was math-lite.
I'm a business applications programmer by trade and fun stuff like this isn't anywhere on our radar. I also have a family and the associated obligations like T-Ball and dance recitals so I don't have the time to dig deeply into the algorithms and math. PCI was a good balance to me between showing the theory and also providing concrete working code.
My only quibble with the book was that a lot of the code was not idiomatic Python. (un-Pythonic, if you will.)
I loved PCI because it was math-lite.
I'm a business applications programmer by trade and fun stuff like this isn't anywhere on our radar. I also have a family and the associated obligations like T-Ball and dance recitals so I don't have the time to dig deeply into the algorithms and math. PCI was a good balance to me between showing the theory and also providing concrete working code.
My only quibble with the book was that a lot of the code was not idiomatic Python. (un-Pythonic, if you will.)
Just my $0.02.