Living in the Tech Avalanche Generation

I have to say that my patience for programming books is dwindling. I must pay more attention and actively seek to avoid books that claim to be “introductory” and then proceed to delve into the plumbing of the technology, and I mean deep into the bowels of how the technology works. Bollocks I say. If an author claims their intention was to introduce their readers to some new technology then I thinks it’s incumbent on them to make sure that they seek to acquaint the reader and the technology rather than thrust them into marriage, after all I only wanted to peak behind the curtain and get a feeling for what was going on. I find it frustrating when introductory books delve too deep into the bowels of the technology itself and spend too little time uncovering the sweet spot, the aspects that define the value proposition of the topic. Thank god for the Internet and it’s plethora of alternative information streams.