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Originally posted by Qwerty:
I basically have to show my mom the results. Me enjoying the course doesn't mean it's benefiting, or working for me. But anyway, CAN I PR A PROGRAMMING BOOK AS MY FIRST BOOK?
Being a programmer myself, I've read many books on programming. I think first of all that you might want to start with a simpler language like C, before adding object oriented concepts. Another thing you might want to consider is that in order to truly learn anything useful from a programming book, you'd need to read it in front of a computer and work through the examples as the author gives them.
On the other hand if you already know a programming language and want to read a book to apply the language to something useful, you'd probably be able to photoread it to get the ideas and concepts you're looking for.
The course suggests finding a book that is short and relatively easy to read as the first book you photoread. The main reason for this was stated to be that you don't want to choose anything too difficult that you might get disappointing results from. Once you've been photoreading for a while and are more confident, the course states that you can choose any book you want.
Cheers,
