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Hi Andreas,
I'm not sure what Alex is really referring to with respect to the
index. The index of Programming in Scala was as carefully created as
the rest of the book. It spans 26 pages. Each entry is broken down
into many subcategories that are specific and page numbers are given
for those. So you don't get a general entry with 25 page numbers you
need to search through. Perhaps he was looking for a few items that he
didn't find in the index, and concluded maybe prematurely it was not
useful as a reference. (Or perhaps he was looking at a PDF PrePrint,
that didn't have an index. The index only appeared in the final
version.) But I'd imagine most of what most people look for in the
index would be in there in an easy to find spot.
It was hard to try and imagine every word people would try and look
up. One thing I wish I could figure out how to capture is index
"misses," when people look something up in there that isn't in there.
That would help me improve the index over time.
Bill
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:35 AM, andreas s. <andreas_scheinert@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> Ismael Juma wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 11:34 -0700, andreas s. wrote:
> >> somewhere at the end:
> >> http://www.scala-lang.org/node/2200
> >> "I found the book on Scala is a great read. I almost read it from cover
> >> to
> >> cover in one sitting, but it is not good for reference. The index is
> >> incomplete and so many of the language features are hard to find."
> >
> > Personally, I just search the PDF. Relying on book index to find things
> > is something I have not done for a very long time.
> >
> > Ismael
> >
> >
> >
> But you did notice that Alex McGuire in the Interview said that about the
> book index? ( Just to be sure)
>
> Personally i wished i had the PDF too ( because it gets updated?!) but its
> still nice to read the book in an easy moment without the computer.
>
> regards andreas
> --
> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-scala--Scala-beginner-tp23957424p24116772.html
> Sent from the Scala mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
--
Bill Venners
Artima, Inc.
http://www.artima.com
I'm not sure what Alex is really referring to with respect to the
index. The index of Programming in Scala was as carefully created as
the rest of the book. It spans 26 pages. Each entry is broken down
into many subcategories that are specific and page numbers are given
for those. So you don't get a general entry with 25 page numbers you
need to search through. Perhaps he was looking for a few items that he
didn't find in the index, and concluded maybe prematurely it was not
useful as a reference. (Or perhaps he was looking at a PDF PrePrint,
that didn't have an index. The index only appeared in the final
version.) But I'd imagine most of what most people look for in the
index would be in there in an easy to find spot.
It was hard to try and imagine every word people would try and look
up. One thing I wish I could figure out how to capture is index
"misses," when people look something up in there that isn't in there.
That would help me improve the index over time.
Bill
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:35 AM, andreas s. <andreas_scheinert@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> Ismael Juma wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 11:34 -0700, andreas s. wrote:
> >> somewhere at the end:
> >> http://www.scala-lang.org/node/2200
> >> "I found the book on Scala is a great read. I almost read it from cover
> >> to
> >> cover in one sitting, but it is not good for reference. The index is
> >> incomplete and so many of the language features are hard to find."
> >
> > Personally, I just search the PDF. Relying on book index to find things
> > is something I have not done for a very long time.
> >
> > Ismael
> >
> >
> >
> But you did notice that Alex McGuire in the Interview said that about the
> book index? ( Just to be sure)
>
> Personally i wished i had the PDF too ( because it gets updated?!) but its
> still nice to read the book in an easy moment without the computer.
>
> regards andreas
> --
> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-scala--Scala-beginner-tp23957424p24116772.html
> Sent from the Scala mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
--
Bill Venners
Artima, Inc.
http://www.artima.com
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