Reviews for Plug & Play Programming: An Object-Oriented Construction Kit/Book and Disk

The average rating for Plug & Play Programming: An Object-Oriented Construction Kit/Book and Disk based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-04-23 00:00:00 jonathan tieche What a beautiful book. My grandmother gave me my first computer the year this book was published. It was also during this year I learned about fractals. So it was a nostalgic bulls-eye to find this book. Computing and programming really was more magical before we put everything in a browser and got stuck building GUIs. I turned out two quick blog posts while reading this book, with tricks I picked up.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-04 00:00:00 Michael Self A really outdated book about visualization of strange attractors. The vast majority of the text is taken over by pretty pictures and the step-by-step creation of a fairly eccentric program to create the visualizations (written in BASIC, of all things). Someone gave me the book as a gift years ago and I only picked it up recently since I was teaching myself python and this seemed like a fun way to learn the plotting libraries. The first few chapters provide a decent introduction to chaos found in simple iterated equations, and a few lines of code can give you some nifty visuals. That said, the book continues for pages and pages of absolutely bone-crushing detail that most people will just want to skip.