I find this guy pretty arrogant and a bit of a grand-stander, but maybe I get the wrong impression.
He did have a good idea once, namely to release his textbooks free in the internet before that became fashionable. That is still a good idea today. The textbooks are not the best of breed by a long stretch but we shouldn't diminish the fact that he released them.
If you think you can do it, do it, release it. Bask in the glory.
I really enjoyed his first C++ book. The only one I've seen that assumes proficiency in C and dives into the new stuff immediately. Bruce is a good writer but I think the ship has sailed on writing new Python books that can stand out from the crowd. Atomic Rust would be more commercially viable.
I thought he did a good job with atomic Scala and recommended it to a friend who wanted to see if programming might be for him. It did a really nice job of walking you through the language without assuming prior knowledge.
He only plans to write yet another book, not to fix the GIL issue, or something like that.
Yes, the 'Atomic' in the title was confusing at first, having read none of this books with the 'Atomic' moniker. In fact, his C++ books are short and to the point.
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I find this guy pretty arrogant and a bit of a grand-stander, but maybe I get the wrong impression. He did have a good idea once, namely to release his textbooks free in the internet before that became fashionable. That is still a good idea today. The textbooks are not the best of breed by a long stretch but we shouldn't diminish the fact that he released them.
If you think you can do it, do it, release it. Bask in the glory.
Prediction: he can't. But good luck anyway.
I really enjoyed his first C++ book. The only one I've seen that assumes proficiency in C and dives into the new stuff immediately. Bruce is a good writer but I think the ship has sailed on writing new Python books that can stand out from the crowd. Atomic Rust would be more commercially viable.
I thought he did a good job with atomic Scala and recommended it to a friend who wanted to see if programming might be for him. It did a really nice job of walking you through the language without assuming prior knowledge.
He only plans to write yet another book, not to fix the GIL issue, or something like that.
Yes, the 'Atomic' in the title was confusing at first, having read none of this books with the 'Atomic' moniker. In fact, his C++ books are short and to the point.
I don't see anything far fetched about his goals.