Acknowledgments
I want to thank past and present colleagues for the encouragements that got me started and for their feedback on the early stages of this project. Some were confident I had something to say (and could say it) before I realized it myself.
A special thanks to my students, who went through various iterations of the material that ended up in this book. They were my guinea pigs. More times than I care to admit, I subjected them to frantic improvisation because a feature suddenly needed for that day’s lecture was only going to be introduced as part of the following week’s discussion. (To arrange hundreds of code examples in a consistent order is harder than it looks.) With last minute changes before every class, students got used to, ...
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