The most important thing when taking on something new is to start. Even if you only get the basics over a few days, hopefully that can get you far enough down the trail to boost your motivation to learn more.
The "X in Y Days" pattern is just one of many that can pull in interested, but not significantly motivated, readers. The books, then, should be judged on their abilities to give their readers a good kick in the butt ;-)
Instead of solely teaching syntax and methods, these rapid learning books should devote a lot to teaching people "how to learn" and what routes to take to learn the specific language better.
No. You get a new story if no previous one with that url is in memory, which is increasingly likely if it's older. It works surprisingly well in practice.
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 31.7 ms ] threadThe "X in Y Days" pattern is just one of many that can pull in interested, but not significantly motivated, readers. The books, then, should be judged on their abilities to give their readers a good kick in the butt ;-)
Instead of solely teaching syntax and methods, these rapid learning books should devote a lot to teaching people "how to learn" and what routes to take to learn the specific language better.
105 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060176
I think that there is nothing wrong with this for old timeless articles, if done infrequently enough.