Reviews for Dicho y hecho Beginning Spanish Seventh Edition (Special Edition for the Department of Moder...

The average rating for Dicho y hecho Beginning Spanish Seventh Edition (Special Edition for the Department of Moder... based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-06-30 00:00:00 Marty Beckett The scope of "Proglangprag" (how I've taken to saying it) is enormous. It is not only a (fairly) comprehensive survey of languages, but also a pretty decent guide to understanding how languages are parsed, scanned, and turned into machine language. Make no mistake: you won't be able to write a compiler for your own language using just this book as your guide. Nor will you be able to write any functioning programs of your own in any of the languages featured in this book. So what's the point? Well, sometimes you have to take a step (or two) away from the keyboard and get a birds-eye view of a subject. Proglangprag is a meticulous guide to the landscape of programming languages. It's a topic so enormous that it takes a book this big to even explore the territory. In no way can it take the time to explore a language or concept in enough detail for you to do anything practical on a keyboard. As it is, many whole chapters were removed from the book and put on a companion CD (included with the book). I wish these chapters had been included so that I could have read them from the comfort of my couch like the rest of the book (I sure has heck wasn't going to print them all out). As the author himself states, they're not superfluous chapters and they're worth reading. Reading Proglangprag straight through is not a fun task by any means. It took me two long months to complete. And now that it's four months later, I couldn't regurgitate any of the material without having to consult the book. But that's not why I read books like this. I read them to fill in gaps in my knowledge and to give these topics familiarity when I come across them again. In this respect, Proglangprag served my needs perfectly. I wrote a parser for a text-based adventure game system I created called Hoot before, during, and after I read this book. I can say from real, practical experience that familiarity with the material in Proglangprag can make an excellent guide to further research into these topics. Even just knowing the right terminology cannot be overvalued. Michael Scott's writing is quite dry. You won't be chuckling while you read this, or even getting any of those faint grins you might crack when reading Donald Knuth's footnotes. At times, it's just plain boring, even if you're quite interested in the topic. Nonetheless, I know of no other book with the same range or scope, which puts this in a class of its own and worth reading for that reason alone. In the end, these are topics with which every programmer should be acquainted. If you've any doubts, bust this beast open and read until you get to the last page. You can thank (or choke) me later.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-16 00:00:00 Glen Shepard Long read, but great high level overview. I think it'll serve as a reference as well.