Please Vote: Exercises in TDPL?

[Jesse Phillips]

On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:05:04 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> A chunky fragment of TDPL will hit Rough Cuts soon enough. I'm pondering
> whether I should be adding exercises to the book. Some books have them,
> some don't.
> 
> Pros: As I'm writing, I've come up with some pretty darn cool exercise
> ideas.
> 
> Cons: The book gets larger, takes longer to write, and I never solved
> the exercises in the books I've read, but then I'm just weird.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrei

I don't usually do exercises, but as others have pointed out a lot of 
times they end up just being stupid questions. I think there should be a 
few, one or two per chapter, this way they can really concentrate on the 
key points of the chapter. (I supposed you just shouldn't force exercises 
if they are not any good)

I want to point out that a good index should be included, something LTTWD 
really missed. (Yes I know about http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/
tango/book/TangoIndex.pdf since I wrote it)