Please Vote: Exercises in TDPL?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Sean Kelly" <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote in message 
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> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>> Cons: I've never been much of a fan of them. Rarely look at them, and 
>> never do them. But more than that, I find opening a book and seeing of 
>> bunch of "exercises" and "end of chapter quizzes" rather off-putting.
>
> I have a few books I bought largely for reference material where stuff was 
> omitted and left as an exercise to the reader (I'm looking at you, 
> Sedgewick!)  Regardless of how easy some of these exercises may be for me 
> to solve, it isn't something I'm generally in the mood for when I pick up 
> the book at work to check something.  However, this isn't a book about 
> algorithms so perhaps this isn't an issue really.

Maybe I'm contradicting my own original point here, but I actually did buy a 
book once where exercises were actually the entire point of the book (it 
does have solutions). It's called "Find The Bug", and has source for a bunch 
of functions in various languages, each one with a hidden bug to find 
(obviously). Many of them basically point out "gotchas" in the langauges 
(IIRC, C, Python, and maybe Java and something else). It sounded kind of 
neat, like a "programmer's puzzle book". Although I still haven't actually 
gotten around to it though. It's sitting there in my ever-growing pile of 
"stuff to read...someday".