September 2018
Beginner
474 pages
9h 35m
English
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Chapter 21. Conclusion
Congratulations. You’ve made it to the end of the book. Some people estimate that only one-third of the readers of a technical book accomplish that feat. This book was only supposed to be 300 pages long, but I couldn’t decide how to leave out anything still included. Sorry about that. The 80 pages of exercise answers really sent me over the limit. If you’re reading this, send me an email noting your rarified status as a completist reader!
I wasn’t able to teach you how to be a programmer. I only had the one book. I’ve been at it for several decades and I’m still learning. This book specifically avoided that goal, and I think I’ve succeeded there. Remember that what you’ve seen here to demonstrate and isolate concepts and syntax is not a prescription for good programming practices.
I hope you learned the basics of the language and that you can get simple programs to run. If you’re at the start of your programming career, don’t feel bad if you think you are taking longer than you should to get programs working. Writing programs is always the easy part. It’s the debugging work that’s hard. That takes practice. Every time you encounter a new problem you’re adding to the list of things you’ve encountered. Eventually you encounter a problem often enough that you start to subconsciously avoid it. That merely makes space for new sorts of mistakes.
You aren’t done learning the language. There’s much more in the documentation. I noted some favorite excluded topics in ...
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