Ok, before I type my random sarcasticness, do you honestly
think I read this book all the way through? Not that I didn’t find it
interesting, but let’s look at some of the gibberish and Asian/Greek/Alien
language plastered everywhere in it:
>Sighs< I don’t know what’s up with this book, but at
times I did find these mysterious symbols much more captivating than the text.
Anyway, let’s pretend I read this thing as I make up the next 380 words
required for this blog.
To be
honest, a lot of the book wasn’t really new. Sure, it had concepts that were
really cool, but I learned most of it already. Chapters one and two dealt with
aspects of computer engineering, which I’m more familiar with as I’m taking the
class right now. I knew what he meant by DeMorgan’s Theorem, Boolean algebra,
and logic gates, so much of that wasn’t new to me. I did find a few of the
diagrams interesting, such as figures 5 and 6, as I didn’t really imagine
computers having literal nuts and bolts early on. Chapter 3 reminded me of
scratch and some other program from my earlier years I used that involved
moving a turtle from place to place. Notice how I didn’t mention chapters 4 and
5? I really didn’t like either of those chapters. It just seemed really
repetitive and I found it quite hard to understand. Maybe cause I’m stupid
>shrugs< who knows.
Would I
recommend this book to a friend? Let’s define “friend” here. Do you mean
someone I care for as a human being, or some random stranger I say “hi” to
before hurrying off to wherever I’m going? If it’s the latter, then totally. I
could just chuck the book at them and continue on with my day. If I were to
give this book to a friend, I’d probably have to bribe them with candy or money.
Probably both. Not to say that I hated the book, but I don’t really see any of
my friends reading it, especially since most of them barely know how to turn on
a computer and the words in it will probably look similar to the gibberish crap
written everywhere in my book in the pictures above.
Hm, since I
need a few more words, I guess I can tell you how I felt while reading this
book.
Bored?
Engaged? Interested? All of the above.
That’s it
for this blog. Tune in for next week’s installment.
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