Sean Corfield blogged a reference to a rant against “Teach Yourself X in N Minutes|Hours|Days” books (see http://www.corfield.org/blog/past/2004_03.html). Sean (and Brian LeRoux) seem to agree with the rant’s basic premise, and there is some validity to their concerns (I agree, some “Teach Yourself” books really are fundamentally flawed). But, as the author of a couple of these books I think they have missed the real purpose and value proposition of crash-course simplified just-the-basics getting-started type titles, and I state as such in a comment on Sean’s entry.
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